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NetBSD/evbarm
About NetBSD/evbarm
NetBSD/evbarm is the port of NetBSD to various systems based on chips
implementing the ARM architecture. The "evb" component is a reference
to evaluation boards, the original target of the port. However, the
single GENERIC/GENERIC64 kernel now supports a range of machines including
development boards, virtual machines, "ServerReady" (SBBR/SBSA) hardware,
and laptops through both device tree and ACPI based booting.
About NetBSD/evbarm
Release Info
Mailing List
Supported Hardware
CPU types
Board specific information (often including installation information)
Bootable Install Images
QEMU
VMware Fusion
Additional Info
SSH configuration
anita
Release Info
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv6hf 10.1 via download
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv6hf 10.1 ISO
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv7hf 10.1 via download
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv7hf 10.1 ISO
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv7hfeb 10.1 via download
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv7hfeb 10.1 ISO
NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 10.1 via download
NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 10.1 ISO
NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64eb 10.1 via download
NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64eb 10.1 ISO
NetBSD/evbarm 10.1 INSTALL notes
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv6hf 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv7hf 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
NetBSD/evbarm-earmv7hfeb 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64eb 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
NetBSD/evbarm 10.0 changes
NetBSD/evbarm 11.0 changes
Mailing List
The
NetBSD/arm mailing list
, covering NetBSD's port to arm machine:
archive
Mail the NetBSD/arm port maintainer
Supported Hardware
CPU types
Various CPU variants are supported, e.g:
earmv6hf - ARMv6-A with EABI and hardware floating point, e.g.
the original Raspberry Pi.
earmv7hf - ARMv7-A with EABI and hardware floating point, e.g.
most recent and common 32-bit ARM boards. Supports up to 8 CPUs.
earmv7hfeb - Same as the above, but with the CPU running in
big endian mode.
aarch64 - 64-bit ARMv8-A boards, e.g. all 64-bit hardware.
Fully 64-bit kernel and userland. Running 32-bit binaries is supported
with
compat32
aarch64eb - Same as the above, but with the CPU running in
big endian mode.
evbarm variants are little endian unless otherwise stated. NetBSD provides
big endian images primarily for testing purposes and to ensure that the code
is endian-clean.
Board specific information (often including installation information)
Most ARM boards (unless they have UEFI or Raspberry Pi firmware) require a
board-specific U-Boot image alongside the generic NetBSD image to be
written to their storage. In most cases board-specific U-Boot images can
be built using
pkgsrc
Allwinner sunxi family SoCs
Apple Silicon
BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, and PocketBeagle
NVIDIA Tegra
ODROID C1 and C1+
Raspberry Pi family
RockChip SoCs
Terasic DE0 Nano-SoC
NOTE
: This list is incomplete. For a full list of supported device tree
based boards, please see the list of
32-bit
and
64-bit
device trees.
Bootable Install Images
We provide
ready-to-install / boot images
for many of the supported boards.
QEMU
See the
NetBSD/evbarm under QEMU
page for instructions on how to get started with QEMU.
VMware Fusion
See the
NetBSD/evbarm under Fusion
page for instructions on how to get started with Fusion.
Additional Info
SSH configuration
The default configuration will connect to the local network via DHCP and
run an SSH server.
In order to use the SSH server, we must configure users.
This can be done by writing to the SD card's MS-DOS partition.
Create a creds.txt file and use:
useradd user password
See
creds_msdos(8)
for
additional configuration options.
anita
anita can be used to test builds. (In addition to anita, install qemu and dtb-arm-vexpress from pkgsrc.) The release subdirectory should follow the naming convention on the autobuild cluster, used below.
evbarm-earmv7hf uses 'qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a15'
evbarm-aarch64 uses 'qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt'
Information on how to test emulated versions of other specific hardware is welcome.
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