Anyone looking at a M1/M2 port of GhostBSD? AFAIK FreeBSD has support as does KDE. Guess I'll take a look at building a FreeBSD Frankenmash for my M2.

Share back url links I can read about M1/M2 FreeBSD ports. Yes, I can google-fu on my own, yet I want to see what you see. That we be nice to have a working M1/M2 FreeBSD port to use for building a GhostBSD port.


https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com
I only have a Raspberry Pi 4B to test building a GhostBSD -ARM64 from source code. Look at September 5, 2022 entry for compiling make buildkernel details for FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/202 ... r.html?m=1

How would you like to help and what access to Arm64 hardware do you have?

never shared the information, I will wait)

So where is url link to FreeBSD M1/M2 arm port?

Freebsd arm mailing list.
https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-arm
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/

please share what you know.

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/free ... 02470.html
Here is example of porting FreeBSD to AllWinner H616 cpu, Orange Pi Zero 2 sbc.

For discussion, anybody have a MAC mini M1/M2 that can test FreeBSD or OpenBSD on them?
https://www.cs.middlebury.edu/~pjohnson ... 31/freebsd Here are some directions to use UTM and install FreeBSD.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon FreeBSD support of M1 booting

https://ftp.riken.go.jp/OpenBSD/7.3/ANNOUNCEMENT
https://ftp.riken.go.jp/OpenBSD/7.3/README

https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1021-state- ... ig-bsd-oss

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

https://lwn.net/Articles/928668/ OpenBSD 7.3
https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

See for example ... "arm64 is classified as a Tier-1 architecture on FreeBSD as of FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE. Before that it was classified as tier-2." https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64
I know that does not mean it's M1/M2 ready but I imagine it will run under VMWare on M1/M2 with its generic devices. I'll give it a shot this weekend.

FreeBSD 13.2 installs and boots under VMware Fusion on M2 Apple Silicon. I will get X11 up and a GUI on it (MATE) and then I'll be happy. The install of FreeBSD went flawlessly.

That's good to know. In 2023 machines usually have plenty of RAM and people like to run various options as virtual machines on a laptop (or desktop come to that). Running hypervisor software should be a useful pointer in any system review in magazines and websites. Maybe not Kubernetes but at least VMware and Virtualbox.