M1/M2 Mac port ?

[zslg01]

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.

[wb7odyfred]

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?

[FaroukMiah]

never shared the information, I will wait)

[wb7odyfred]

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.

[wb7odyfred]

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

[zslg01]

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.

[zslg01]

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.

[mechanic]

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.