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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?

• revnja 13y 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.
• octo_t 13y ago
  raspberry pi's are ARM and amd64 is amd64 (for intel/amd processors)
• jsmith0295 13y 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.
• takeda 13y 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 https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi). If you have FreeBSD machine you can compile it yourself.
  • pwenzel 13y ago
    My bad, I didn't read the '-amd64-' part clearly.