OpenBSD/arm64

OpenBSD arm64

OpenBSD/arm64 is a port of OpenBSD to various 64-bit ARM based systems.

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Current status

The current target platforms are the Pine64 and the Raspberry Pi 3.

Supported hardware

OpenBSD/arm64 bundles various platforms sharing the 64-bit ARM architecture. Due to the fact that there are many System on a Chips (SoC) around, OpenBSD/arm64 differentiates between various SoCs and may have a different level of support between them.

Pine64
Raspberry Pi 3

Ethernet

smsc(4) integrated SMSC LAN95xx 10/100 USB Ethernet on Raspberry Pi 3

Storage

USB

dwctwo(4) on Raspberry Pi 3
ehci(4) on Pine64

No real time clock: Many of the arm64 devices do not have a battery-backed real time clock. For this reason, using the -s option of OpenNTPD may be desirable.

Getting and installing

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/arm64 snapshot installation instructions as well.