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21.7 Legacy Series / ARM Support

« on: October 11, 2021, 02:13:56 pm »

This time? Maybe? Or never at all?

In the past "arm support" was on the official opnsense road map but as today it's just gone:

Context:
17.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=2441
18.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7741
19.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10937
20.1: 
21.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21551
21.7: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=25107
22.1: to be continued
23.1: to be continued
24.1: to be continued
25.1: to be continued

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21.1 Legacy Series / ARM Support

« on: February 16, 2021, 11:37:26 am »

This time? Maybe?

Context:

17.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=2441
18.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7741
19.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10937
20.1: 
21.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21551
22.1: to be continued

Soon I can start to ask for RISC V support 

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19.1 Legacy Series / ARM Support

« on: January 09, 2019, 09:09:31 pm »

This time? Maybe?

Context:

17.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=2441.msg29897#msg29897
18.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7741.msg35479#msg35479
19.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10937.msg50053#msg50053

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18.1 Legacy Series / ARM Support (for SoC's supported by FreeBSD 11) [meltdown & spectre FREE!]

« on: March 27, 2018, 09:58:05 am »

Hello,

once again. Still on the wish list. Maybe not even that hard to achieve

FreeBSD supports the following Allwinner SoCs:

    Allwinner A10 (sun4i), a single core Cortex-A8
    Allwinner A13/R8 (sun5i), a single core Cortex-A8
    Allwinner A20 (sun7i), a dual-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner A31 and A31s (sun6i), a quad-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner A64 (sun50i), a quad-core Cortex-A53
    Allwinner A83T (sun8i), an octa-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner H3 (sun8i), a quad-core Cortex-A7

From: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Allwinner

The latest in the list (H3) is also the most affordable one with a very nice bang for bucks ratio and is also meltdown and spectre free!

For example this little guy here (Orange Pi R1) costs around USD 13.90 and could go as a very nice road warrior with very decent VPN throughput:



(the used H2 SoC is tecnically a H3: https://linux-sunxi.org/H3#Variants)

And here a link were somebody created a freebsd for two H3 boards: https://framkant.org/2017/07/running-freebsd-on-nanopi-neo-or-orangepi-zero/

I still have hope!