OpenBSD/armv7

OpenBSD/armv7 is a port of OpenBSD to various ARMv7 based systems.

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Table of contents

• Current status
• Supported hardware
• Project list
• Getting and installing

Current status

The current target platforms are i.MX6 and OMAP3/4. We try to support most of the boards based on those SoCs. A list of supported boards is in the section Supported hardware. There are still a fair number of things to do on each of these boards. The platform is now self hosting, however there is no SMP support. Networking is working on i.MX6, the PandaBoard and the BeagleBone.

Supported hardware

Supported platforms

• i.MX6
  • SABRE Lite
  • Nitrogen6X
• OMAP3/4
  • BeagleBoard C4 / xM
  • BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black
  • PandaBoard and PandaBoard ES

Ethernet

• cpsw(4) CPSW Ethernet device.
• i.MX Ethernet.

Storage

• ahci(4) on i.MX6.
• SD/MMC controller on i.MX6/OMAP, including BeagleBone Black's built-in flash.

USB

• ehci(4) on i.MX6 based models and the PandaBoard models.

Projects (in no particular order):

• SMP
• Hard-float Userland
• EABI
• Generic kernel using FDT.
• Proper boot support.
• Support for the battery-backed RTC.
• Support for the DMA controller.
• Support for USB on BeagleBoard and BeagleBone models.

Getting and installing

Snapshots are made available regularly, in this location as well as in a few mirrors.

Here are the OpenBSD/armv7 snapshot installation instructions as well.