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General Discussion / [Continuation- Arm64] Can we install opnsense on existing FreeBSD installation?
« on: April 27, 2020, 03:26:42 pm »
Hello Devs,
I am continuing the topic I read here about bootstrap usage for installing Opnsense on existing FreeBSD installation which is for AMD64 but my question is form arm64.
Archived Topic: Can I install Opnsense in an existing FreeBSD installation ?
As I see rk3399 soc based on arm64/Aarch64 is ported to freebsd uboot and kernel, I was thinking to attempting bootstrap installation of opnsense over the running Freebsd, I do know the script have a arch validator in place which will not allow me to continue, But Maybe I can add arm64 and see what happens,
From my understanding I am aware that after the reboot it will never boot as the kernel will be replaced with the opnsense kernel, my next question is what configs are present in opnsense kernel ? Do you plan to add arm configs and rk3399 (in specific) to opnsense kernel? I don't think it will be major change to the opnsense kernel as it is already maintained in freebsd.
I would like to know such details from opnsense devs. I have few boards which I work on for development and I see that these boards will be a good replacement to use as Opnsense firewall instead of X64.
Some boards which will be a good options on RK3399.
Khadas Edge-V - FreeBSD already running on this.
Pine64 RockPro64 - Plan underway to make Router Hardware based on the same sbc
Radxa RockPi64
Other
BPi - R2 - Armv7 - Router hardware and Freebsd existing for this SOC.
Maybe I could be of any help to the opnsense community.
Thanks.
I am continuing the topic I read here about bootstrap usage for installing Opnsense on existing FreeBSD installation which is for AMD64 but my question is form arm64.
Archived Topic: Can I install Opnsense in an existing FreeBSD installation ?
As I see rk3399 soc based on arm64/Aarch64 is ported to freebsd uboot and kernel, I was thinking to attempting bootstrap installation of opnsense over the running Freebsd, I do know the script have a arch validator in place which will not allow me to continue, But Maybe I can add arm64 and see what happens,
From my understanding I am aware that after the reboot it will never boot as the kernel will be replaced with the opnsense kernel, my next question is what configs are present in opnsense kernel ? Do you plan to add arm configs and rk3399 (in specific) to opnsense kernel? I don't think it will be major change to the opnsense kernel as it is already maintained in freebsd.
I would like to know such details from opnsense devs. I have few boards which I work on for development and I see that these boards will be a good replacement to use as Opnsense firewall instead of X64.
Some boards which will be a good options on RK3399.
Khadas Edge-V - FreeBSD already running on this.
Pine64 RockPro64 - Plan underway to make Router Hardware based on the same sbc
Radxa RockPi64
Other
BPi - R2 - Armv7 - Router hardware and Freebsd existing for this SOC.
Maybe I could be of any help to the opnsense community.
Thanks.