Will it run FreeBSD ? [Embedded Version]

Going off of Orange Pi 5 pricing; I doubt it. Plus I'd have a better chance of getting FreeBSD running on this than getting around Apples ironclad boot chain. M1 Mac Mini's are getting dirt cheap though.
 
a radxa orion board which is basically the same thing sells for 400 euros on aliexpress.without case, ram, psu or storage. freebsd may somehow work on it with half the hw supported and it will probably be less usefull than a vm on apple silicon
 
Beastie7 said:
Going off of Orange Pi 5 pricing; I doubt it. Plus I'd have a better chance of getting FreeBSD running on this than getting around Apples ironclad boot chain. M1 Mac Mini's are getting dirt cheap though.
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i admit i was wrong.
they seem quite a bit cheaper than radxa orion
250 euros with 16gb and power source.
 
Hey @Phishfry, I guess you have lot of experience with FreeBSD on embedded. What is the lowest size disk you were able to fit FreeBSD into?

I am trying to port on two small SBC one with 16MB flash and another with 128 MB flash. So, I want to know if it's possible or not.
 
128MB might work. The lowest I got was 105MB bare and WAP 125MB.

Problem you run into is the first time you run pkg it creates its database and files. This adds 15MB..
So you really need to bake your programs in manually for an appliance with such limited storage..
 
Phishfry said:
128MB might work. The lowest I got was 105MB bare and WAP 125MB.

Problem you run into is the first time you run pkg it creates its database and files. This adds 15MB..
So you really need to bake your programs in manually for an appliance with such limited storage..
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If you made your own base.txz with a lot of extra stuff that is irrelevant in an embedded system removed, then FreeBSD could be much smaller, albeit no longer POSIX/SUS-compliant-ish-kindof-notreallycertified.
 
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