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by snvzz 2001 days ago
Netbsd is often a better fit for the older or more resource constrained machines.
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loeg 2001 days ago
There is a small group of folks who try to keep a FreeBSD configuration alive that fits on these tiny 16-32M machines as well: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-wifi-build .

E.g., this hardware has 16MB of RAM and 4MB of flash: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-wifi-build/blob/master/bu...

32MB RAM: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-wifi-build/blob/master/bu...

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jamesmd 2001 days ago
I agree, or even something like openwrt. This was just to see if it could be done, it’s not the most practical OS for the hardware but it runs pretty well!
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slezyr 2001 days ago
OpenWRT no longer supports devices with the 4MB ROM or 32MB RAM
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slacka 2001 days ago
Yeah, I encountered this. Repurposed my Netgear WNR1000 v2 with OpenWrt to act as a bridge to connect wired devices to my network. While it has served this role flawlessly for 5+ years, it's frozen in time running an old kernel. The write-up as to why they had to drop support is a good read. [1]

[1] https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning

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anthk 2000 days ago
>OpenWRT no longer supports devices with the 4MB ROM or 32MB RAM

So no new zipit z2 port? I doudbt it...

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pantalaimon 2001 days ago
i doubt NetBSD has drivers for this SoC
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jamesmd 2001 days ago
It doesn’t, it’s Linux only for now. Unless someone builds uboot for bsd. Even then there would be a huge amount of work to do to get it running stable.
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snvzz 2001 days ago
It supports (and I've run it on) some allwinner families. Apparently not this device, as far as I can tell.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/allwinner/

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