On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 06:48:35AM +0200, L.R. D.S. wrote: > Hi, > I'm thinking of buying a new toy board like BeagleBone Black to test the > armv7 port. > It's already possible to do full disk encryption on these boards?
I don't think the armv7 bootloader has softraid support at present. You could use mount_vnd(8) to crypt some partitions. However, I/O performance on BBB is so bad that adding crypto on top is rather boring. I use a BBB at home. It's a toy which works fine for simple network-bound services but you can't make it do wifi or routing due to lack of USB support. The USB port on BBB is driven by a non-standard host controller which is not supported by OpenBSD yet. If you're still figuring out what to buy, also take a look at other boards listed on this page: http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html Freescale/NXP i.MX6 devices are currently the best supported ones but they are more expensive than BBB. If you're using the armv7 port you'll want to run -current in any case. > Also, as a side question, I remember some discussion here on misc or tech, > about no > support for binary packages on armv7 port. Is it still right, I'll have to > compile > all by myself? I'm already feeling the pain to compile ffmpeg by myself... > Thanks in advance. I'm expecting arm packages to re-appear some day soon. But I'm not directly involved so I don't have any first-hand info. And since I'm not working on it I'll be waiting very patiently.
