Re: state of Raspberry PI support?

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Hi Greg --

I backported the RPI3 changes back to netbsd-7 in July, so all of 
netbsd-7, netbsd-8, and -current should work on it.

Hardware support in -7 and -8 should be more or less the same. A few 
changes in -current off the top of my head:

 - New SD host controller driver for Raspberry Pi 3 boards
 - Bluetooth support

I'd say if you don't need bluetooth, stick with 8!

Cheers,
Jared


On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I see that there is newly spiffed up Allwinner wiki info!
>
> I last paid attention to RPI a few years ago and am about to install a
> machine or two.   It would be really nice if the RPI page
>
>  https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/
>
> explained about the RPI3, and whether 7, 8, and current work.  (My
> impression is that 8 and current are fine on RPI3, but not 7.)
>
> At this point I am not finding 7 of much interest for new installs
> unless there is concern for production stability.  But I am unclear if
> there are good reasons to run current instead of 8 on a PI3, if what I
> want to do is random normal stuff (use a USB disk to be a semi-NAS), and
> GPIO, including I2C, for attached sensors.  Overall, I'd rather stick to
> 8 on machines that I want to use (vs test current on).