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1.1       mspo        1: [[!template id=port
                      2: port="evbarm"
1.6       mspo        3: port_alt="arm"
1.94      nia         4: port_var1="earmv6hf"
                      5: port_var2="earmv7hf"
                      6: port_var3="earmv7hfeb"
                      7: port_var4="aarch64"
                      8: no_install_notes=YES <!-- XXX update this after 9.1 -->
1.49      leot        9: port_var_install_notes="evbarm-earm"
1.91      nia        10: pkg_rel="9.0"
1.85      martin     11: cur_rel="9.0"
                     12: future_rel="10.0"
                     13: changes_cur="9.0"
                     14: changes_future="10.0"
1.93      nia        15: thumbnail="//wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/images/beaglebone.jpg"
1.1       mspo       16: about="""
1.89      nia        17: NetBSD/evbarm is the port of NetBSD to various systems based on chips
                     18: implementing the ARM architecture. The "evb" component is a reference
1.95      nia        19: to evaluation boards, the original target of the port. However, the
                     20: single GENERIC/GENERIC64 kernel now supports a range of machines including
                     21: development boards, virtual machines, "ServerReady" (SBBR/SBSA) hardware,
                     22: and laptops through both device tree and ACPI based booting.
1.89      nia        23: """
1.91      nia        24: supported_hardware="""
1.42      gdt        25: ### CPU types
                     26: 
1.89      nia        27: Various CPU variants are supported, e.g:
                     28: 
1.96      nia        29: - evbarm-earmv6hf - ARMv6-A with EABI and hardware floating point, e.g.
1.89      nia        30:   the original Raspberry Pi.
1.96      nia        31: - evbarm-earmv7hf - ARMv7-A with EABI and hardware floating point, e.g.
1.89      nia        32:   most recent and common 32-bit ARM boards.
                     33: - evbarm-earmv7hfeb - Same as the above, but with the CPU running in
                     34:   big endian mode.
1.97    ! nia        35: - evbarm-aarch64 - 64-bit ARMv8-A
1.89      nia        36: - evbarm-aarch64eb - Same as the above, but with the CPU running in
                     37:   big endian mode.
                     38: 
1.90      nia        39: Since NetBSD 9.0, 64-bit ARM processors are supported (referred to here
                     40: as aarch64). These run with fully 64-bit kernels and userland. Running
1.96      nia        41: 32-bit ARM binaries is also supported with `compat32`. The 64-bit
                     42: kernel supports up to 256 CPUs and the 32-bit kernel supports up to 8.
1.90      nia        43: 
1.95      nia        44: Since NetBSD 9.0, there is support for symmetric and asymmetrical
                     45: multiprocessing (aka big.LITTLE).
                     46: 
1.89      nia        47: evbarm variants are little endian unless otherwise stated. NetBSD provides
                     48: big endian images primarily for testing purposes and to ensure that the code
                     49: is endian-clean.
                     50: 
1.80      gdt        51: ### Board specific information (often including installation information)
1.88      nia        52: 
1.38      wiki       53:  - [[Allwinner sunxi family SoCs|Allwinner]]
1.69      sevan      54:  - [[BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, and PocketBeagle|BeagleBone]]
1.41      wiki       55:  - [[NVIDIA Tegra|Tegra]]
1.27      wiki       56:  - [[ODROID C1 and C1+|ODROID-C1]]
1.40      gdt        57:  - [[Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and 3|Raspberry Pi]]
1.83      mrg        58:  - [[RockChip SoCs|RockChip]]
1.87      aymeric    59:  - [[Terasic DE0 Nano-SoC|Cyclone5]]
1.27      wiki       60: 
1.97    ! nia        61: **NOTE**: This list is incomplete. For a full list of supported device tree
        !            62: based boards, please see the list of
        !            63: [32-bit](https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-9/sys/arch/evbarm/conf/GENERIC#L18) and
        !            64: [64-bit](https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-9/sys/arch/evbarm/conf/GENERIC64#L20) device trees.
1.77      gdt        65: 
1.88      nia        66: ### QEMU
1.77      gdt        67: 
1.88      nia        68: See the [[NetBSD/evbarm under QEMU|qemu_arm]] page for instructions on how to get started with QEMU.
1.91      nia        69: """
                     70: additional="""
                     71: ### armbsd.org builds
                     72: 
                     73: NetBSD developer Jared McNeill provides [builds of NetBSD 9 and -current for a vast variety of hardware.](https://www.armbsd.org/)   In addition to the standard build, these images have board-specific U-Boot contents.  See also /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/u-boot*.
1.77      gdt        74: 
1.88      nia        75: ### anita
1.77      gdt        76: 
1.88      nia        77: 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.
1.77      gdt        78: 
1.91      nia        79:  - evbarm-earmv7hf uses 'qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a15'
                     80:  - evbarm-aarch64 uses 'qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt'
1.88      nia        81:  - Information on how to test emulated versions of other specific hardware is welcome.
1.91      nia        82: """
                     83: ]]
1.1       mspo       84: 
                     85: [[!tag tier1port]]