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<i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
armv7
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<p>
OpenBSD/armv7 is a port of OpenBSD to various ARMv7 based systems.

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<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status</strong></h3>

<p>
The current target platforms are Allwinner A10/A20/A33/A80, H2+/H3,
R16/R40, V40 (<code>sunxi</code>), Freescale i.MX6/7 (<code>imx</code>) and TI
OMAP4/AM3 (<code>am335x</code>/<code>panda</code>). We try to
support most of the boards based on those SoCs. A list of supported
boards is in the <a href="#hardware">supported hardware</a> section.

<p>
There are still a fair number of things to do on each of these boards,
however OpenBSD is generally considered to be usable on them.  The
platform is now self-hosting; however, there is no SMP support.
Networking is working on <code>am335x</code>, <code>imx</code>, <code>panda</code>
and Allwinner A10/A20/H2+/H3.

<h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware</strong></h3>

A note on the platforms and the associated boards: OpenBSD/armv7
bundles various platforms sharing the ARM v7 architecture. Due to the
fact that there are many System-on-Chip devices (SoCs) around, OpenBSD/armv7
differentiates between various SoCs and may have a different level of
support between them. All devices based on the Freescale i.MX6 and
i.MX7 are referred to as <code>imx</code>, all devices based on Allwinner
SoCs are referred to as <code>sunxi</code>. The boards with a TI OMAP4/AM3
SoC are subdivided into <code>am335x</code> (for BeagleBone) and
<code>panda</code> (for PandaBoard).

<ul>
	<li>Allwinner A10/A20
	<ul>
		<li>Cubieboard and Cubieboard 2
		<li>LinkSprite pcDuino
		<li>Banana Pi
	</ul>

	<li>Allwinner A33/R16
	<ul>
		<li>Banana Pi M2 Magic
	</ul>

	<li>Allwinner A80
	<ul>
		<li>Cubieboard4
	</ul>

	<li>Allwinner H2+/H3
	<ul>
		<li>Banana Pi M2+
		<li>Orange Pi One
		<li>Orange Pi Zero
	</ul>

	<li>Allwinner R40/V40
	<ul>
		<li>Banana Pi M2 Berry
	</ul>

	<li>Freescale/NXP i.MX6
	<ul>
		<li>Boundary Devices SABRE Lite/BD-SL-i.MX6
		<li>Boundary Devices Nitrogen6X
		<li>Wandboard
		<li>SolidRun CuBox-i4Pro
		<li>CompuLab Utilite
		<li>Kosagi Novena
	</ul>

	<li>Freescale/NXP i.MX7
	<ul>
		<li>Technexion PICO-PI-IMX7
	</ul>

	<li>TI OMAP4/AM3
	<ul>
		<li>BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black
		<li>PandaBoard and PandaBoard ES
	</ul>

</ul>

<h4>Ethernet</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/cpsw.4">cpsw(4)</a>
	  CPSW Ethernet device on <code>am335x</code>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/fec.4">fec(4)</a>
	  i.MX Ethernet device on <code>imx</code>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/smsc.4">smsc(4)</a>
	  integrated SMSC LAN95xx 10/100 USB Ethernet on <code>panda</code>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/sxie.4">sxie(4)</a>
	  sunxi EMAC 10/100 Ethernet device on Allwinner A10
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/dwge.4">dwge(4)</a>
	  sunxi GMAC 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device on Allwinner A20
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/dwxe.4">dwxe(4)</a>
	  sunxi EMAC 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device on Allwinner H3 and
	  H2+ (10/100 only).
</ul>

<h4>Storage</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/ahci.4">ahci(4)</a>
	  on <code>imx</code> and <code>sunxi</code>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/imxesdhc.4">imxesdhc(4)</a>
	  SD/MMC controller on i.MX6
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/ommmc.4">ommmc(4)</a>
	  SD/MMC controller on OMAP, including BeagleBone Black's built-in flash
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/sximmc.4">sximmc(4)</a>
	  SD/MMC controller on <code>sunxi</code>
</ul>

<h4>USB</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/armv7/ehci.4">ehci(4)</a>
	  on <code>imx</code>, <code>panda</code> and <code>sunxi</code>
</ul>

<b>No real time clock:</b> Many of the armv7 devices do not have a
battery-backed real time clock, but <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd">ntpd(8)</a>
should be able to compensate.

<h3 id="install">
<strong>Getting and installing</strong>
</h3>

<p>
The latest supported OpenBSD/armv7 release is
<a href="79.html">OpenBSD 7.9</a>.
Here are the
<a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
OpenBSD/armv7 installation instructions</a>.

<p>
Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
<a href="https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7">this location</a>
as well as on a few
<a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
Here are the
<a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
OpenBSD/armv7 snapshot installation instructions</a> as well.