About NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64

NetBSD/aarch64 is a port to Arm's 64-bit CPUs and other compatible machines.

Running 32-bit NetBSD/arm EABI binaries is supported on CPUs that are capable of 32-bit EL0 mode; see compat_netbsd32(8).

The port was first committed to the NetBSD source tree as NetBSD/aarch64 on April 1st, 2018. The first release with support for NetBSD/aarch64 was NetBSD 9.0 on February 14th, 2020.

The original work to do this port was done by Ryo Shimizu, Tohru Nishimura, Nick Hudson, Jared McNeill, and Matt Thomas.

The port is fully functional. It has been tested on single-CPU and multiprocessor configurations, including big.LITTLE asymmetric multiprocessing.

The lists of supported boards, SoCs and CPUs is likely incomplete.

SoC specific information

• Broadcom BCM2837
• Amlogic Meson-GXBB, and Meson-GXL
• Rockchip RK3328 and RK3399
• Allwinner A64, H5 and H6
• NVIDIA Tegra X1

Board specific information

• Arm SBSA (Server Base System Architecture) compliant systems
• FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO Plus2
• FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO2
• Hardkernel ODROID-C2
• Libre Computer AML-S905-X-CC (Le Potato)
• NVIDIA Jetson TX1
• PINE64 A64, A64+, A64-LTS, SOPINE, Pinebook, Pinebook Pro, Rock64, RockPro64
• Raspberry Pi 3
• Raspberry Pi 4
• Orange Pi PC 2, Prime, Zero Plus, Zero Plus 2, Lite 2, One Plus
• Banana Pi M64, M2+

Known Supported CPUs

• Ampere eMAG
• Arm Cortex-A53
• Arm Cortex-A57
• Arm Cortex-A72
• Arm Neoverse N1
• Marvell ThunderX
• NVIDIA Denver2

Release Info

• NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 10.0 via download
• NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 10.0 ISO
• NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 10.0 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/evbarm-aarch64 9.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
• NetBSD/evbarm64 10.0 changes
• NetBSD/evbarm64 11.0 changes

Mailing List

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