Re: What is the best supported SoC by FreeBSD?

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:29:41 -0500
Juan David Hurtado G <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, I'm working with a raspberry pi for a project. I've been using
> raspios for two years. But recently it has become pretty unstable for
> our use case (mainly because systemd). Device will host influxdb +
> nginx + grafana
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD on my main workstation and on some servers and I
> really like all the features so that's why I'm looking to use FreeBSD
> here too.
> 
> Few days ago I'm testing FreeBSD on different raspberries but I'm
> getting a laggy system in all of them (discussing this in another
> thread)... maybe those raspberries are not exactly well supported by
> FreeBSD? I guess that if there are bugs it will take time to resolve
> them and unfortunately I'm not an OS developer.
> 
> So my question is... In your experience, what SoC do I need to look
> better in order to use FreeBSD? If they are close in price to the pi
> the better.
> 
> PS: SoC should be able to connect to a network. So ethernet or wifi. I
> understand some wifi on the board is not supported. so at least if it
> has a usb port for a dongle is ok.
> 

Look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/arm and http://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64
(and some subpages there as well). As an example, boards from Pine64
community (http://www.pine64.org), when supported (newer ones in
general take some time to gain FreeBSD support), works quite well.

Regards,
Milan