"Sijmen J. Mulder" <[email protected]> writes: > Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 3. I went back and clicked on "arm" in the CPU column, bringing me to: >> > http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ >> > >> > Some good background upfront but under the Raspberry Pi header >> > there's only a line saying what models are supported. >> >> Sort of near the top, there are links to "board-specific information" >> including the page you found in line 4. > > Right, I see it now! I clicked on the Pi link under "Supported > Hardware", which is an internal link.
Perhaps other things should be links too. >> You mention nightly mirror, so presumably you are wanting to use >> current. Generally the documentation is aimed at people using >> releases. For a RPI[23], I would recommend 8.1 and earvm7hf-el. > > Oh I'd rather have 8.1 indeed. It's just what the page said. I'm going > with this now: > > http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/evbarm-earmv7hf/ > > (There's no evbarm-earmv7hf-el though) This is an unfortunate aspect of the arm world. There are many aliases and variants, and canonical names. One can ask for earv7hf to be built, and that is the -el variant, just not so named. -eb is as I understand it always explicit (in arm).
