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by revnja 4527 days ago
This release has official Raspberry Pi support! Definitely trying this out.
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profquail 4527 days ago
A good source of information about using FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi is the 'Embedded Computing' section of the FreeBSD forums. If you have any questions, that's probably the best place to ask them too:

http://forums.freebsd.org/viewforum.php?f=11

FreeBSD now also supports several other popular ARM development boards besides the RPi: Wandboard, BeagleBoard, SheevaPlug, etc.

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pwenzel 4527 days ago
Is it possible to boot FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img directly on a Raspberry Pi? Or do I have to compile my own image for the Pi?
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takeda 4527 days ago
As other told you this version is intended to be used on amd64 CPUs, which means the most popular 64 bit CPUs (both Intel and AMD).

The reason they don't provide ARM version of FreeBSD is because embedded systems are not the same and have different setup. Since Raspberry Pi is quite popular I can imagine that someone might build available to other for download but I wouldn't expect FreeBSD project do it (it probably would be someone else - I see link to images here https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi). If you have FreeBSD machine you can compile it yourself.

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pwenzel 4526 days ago
My bad, I didn't read the '-amd64-' part clearly.
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revnja 4527 days ago
I'm going to guess not as it is marked as being compatible with amd64, you will need an ARM build (arm 6, I believe) for the Raspberry Pi. I'm sure a third party will eventually post a pre-compiled version somewhere fairly soon.
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jsmith0295 4527 days ago
You can't use the amd64 build as the raspberry pi is ARM based. There is likely a raspberry pi build available somewhere though.
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octo_t 4527 days ago
raspberry pi's are ARM and amd64 is amd64 (for intel/amd processors)
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