FreeBSD on R-Pi and BBB: Odds and ends

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Wed Mar 16 09:34:06 UTC 2016


Hi!

> > onborodin at gmail.com said:
> > >> There is nothing on the R-Pi web page that tells you that there are 2 
> > >> different packages to download for the Raspberry Pi: RPI-B and RPI2.    
> > 
> > > RPI2 in development.  
> > 
> > OK.  I was commenting on the wiki page for Raspberry Pi at:
> >   https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
> > 
> > It doesn't use either "RPI2" or "development".
> > I was pointing out what confused me in case anybody wanted to improve that 
> > page.
> 
> > I think a paragraph that said something like
> >     "FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-arm-armv6-RPI-B" works on B and B+. 
> >     For Pi 2, you need "FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2".
> > would have been very helpful to me.
> > 
> 
> I agree, the page can misinform novices and have some information
> lag. Sorry, I have not right to edit this.

Please create a wiki account and fix the wikipage:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/newaccount/FrontPage?action=newaccount

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