Porting FreeBSD to Efika Platforms Project Competed

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We are pleased to announce the Porting FreeBSD to the Genesi Efika MX SmartBook laptop and SmartTop nettop devices projects has completed!

Here's the latest update on the project, written by the project developer, Aleksandr Rybalko:

You've already seen or at least heard about ARM systems running FreeBSD. In most cases it's routers, firewalls, network storage, etc. Why doesn't anyone use FreeBSD on an ARM based desktop or laptop? It is because no one had implemented Xorg support for boards supported by FreeBSD. Now you have a way to do just that!
I'm glad to introduce an Xorg driver for ARM, and not only ARM but for syscons framebuffer devices. It's called xf86-video-scfb. The driver is very simple, and has been tested and works on the Efika MX and Raspberry Pi devices. I hope it w ll work with other devices, including those not based on ARM.

Here are the instructions so you can get this running on your own system: Building Xorg for FreeBSD ARM.


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