-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 01/05/17 19:14, Swift Griggs wrote:
Good mornin'! > I just picked up an RPI3. I guess I should have waited. A few > congenitally systemd-infected distros work on it, but not much > else. FreeBSD was a notable exception. It seems to work, but I > managed to hork up the SD card jacking around with ZFS before I > could test X11 and other stuff. No big deal. Why would you do such a thing? I have not tried FreeBSD on a Raspi yet. However, I have several other machines running it - primarily because of ZFS. ZFS is a memory hog - and a big fat one at that. This is no big deal on a server or workstation with lots of RAM, but unfortunately, the Raspi doesn't really fit into that category. Although I haven't really measured it, I'm pretty sure that ZFS is also pretty heavy on the CPU (compared to FFS). UFS/FFS with soft updates is probably a better choice for a machine like a Raspi. > However, before I start over, how about NetBSD? When I tried to > boot the gzimg on the SD card it just came up with what looked > like a multicolor test pattern, but no boot etc... That was just a > quick and dirty test. I could have been doing any number of things > wrong. For one, I wasn't using -current. This "multicolor test pattern" is the Raspi's way of telling you that it can't load the OS. You have stated the reason quite well: The Raspi3 only works with NetBSD current. > My real question is: Does NetBSD work well enough on the RPi3 to > make it worth trying ? Also, could one of the anointed ones update > the RPI wiki for the RPi3 ? There is only a brief mention of the > RPi3 in the firmware section (nothing that helpful) and another > user in the comment section is seeing the exact same thing as me. That depends. IIRC everything works fine apart from the wireless-stuff (Wifi and Bluetooth). However, I have always found using any -current OS to be extremely ball-busting. I'll grant you that NetBSD is a lot more conservative (even in -current) than FreeBSD and especially most Linux distros (which are completely bleeding edge). But even with NetBSD it can happen that after an update (which you installed because some feature was a little flaky), the system won't work anymore or you just have a bug-change. Basically, not the best choice for a production-system. Kind regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iL4EAREKAGYFAlhvbr1fFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDgzRDQzNjY2NUYzMDVBMTYxMDY0ODYwNzMy MDIxMzQyODdFMUJGQjIACgkQMgITQofhv7LVvgD+LKmCUSK07ofq9ha5MM6uJFMe Rn9JbjtHl+QHcwWo4jkBAJrZabbUBcl92CoFNH2j1ToFURqMK+ddWQWxWX2fGqiP =Gr5t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----