FreeBSD and Xorg on ARM

As part of the port of FreeBSD to the Efika Platform Project Xorg is now running on FreeBSD on ARM. Here’s an update from the developer, Aleksandr Rybalko:

You’ve already seen or at least heard about ARM systems running FreeBSD. In most cases its 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 away 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 will 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.