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21.7 Legacy Series / Re: ARM Support
« on: October 14, 2021, 05:27:18 pm »My dream for ARM sopport of opnsense is basically over. It's never going to happen....
Thank you for your honest words
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My dream for ARM sopport of opnsense is basically over. It's never going to happen....
http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R1S-H5
Was there ever a opnsense device for less than $25 which does the job? This could be the first one!
I prefer at least 1GB of RAM to make it worth the time. Currently I'm working on NanoPi R1 device patch, let's hope FreeBSD accept it.
check out nanopi-r1, RPI0,1,2,3 is not a really for router/firewall.
Long story short, the image for RPI-2 is here https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:11:armv6/19.1/OPNsense-19.1-test-OpenSSL-arm-armv6-RPI2.img.bz2 and there might be an update before 19.7 but we have no plans to make 32-bit arm officially supported with rolling binary updates.
There's tools.git for everyone who wants to build a certain ARM device:
https://github.com/opnsense/tools#cross-building-for-other-architecures
Cheers,
Franco
for wishlist, i suggest arm boards with at least 1gb ram, and multicore cpu. lower than that we have to ignore it because it will not work. even with RPI2 specs, it's still considered too slow for advanced use.
current OPNsense uses freebsd 11.2. for now i stop experimenting with arm64 because freebsd simply don't have it working yet. but once OPNsense start using freebsd 12.0, i will help again if needed.
OPNsense on NanoPI R1 works.