Mastodawn

An overview on running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD on the #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 #arm64 board, bare and with PCIe extension cards, in the context of building a NAS system.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/bsd-discovery-on-the-pine64-rockpro64/

*BSD discovery on the PINE64 ROCKPro64

I’ve been lurking on the PINE64 ROCKPro64 for a long time but its price compared to other options has always kept me from buying one. But being very happy with my ODROID HC4, I went hunting for a ROCKPro64 and found one. I have (a small) ZFS NAS plans for it. But before I get all the hardware, let’s take a quick look at it running various BSD systems.

Tao of Mac 4d ago

Notes for March 30 – April 5

This was a shorter work week partly due to the Easter weekend and partly because I book-ended it with a couple of days off in an attempt to restore personal sanity–only to catch a (...)

#agents #ai #arm64 #basiliskii #dev #eink #jit #notes #proxmox #weekly

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/04/05/1700?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

N-gated Hacker News 4d ago

Matt just discovered that writing a #tail-call #interpreter in #Rust is surprisingly fun! 🎉 Apparently, outperforming his own #ARM64 #assembly is no big deal. Let's all pretend seven months counts as "recent" in Rust-land! 🕰️
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-04-05-tailcall/ #Programming #Fun #Hacker #News #HackerNews #ngated

A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust

Exploring tail-call-style interpreter implementation with an optimized Uxn emulator, on ARM, x86, and WebAssembly

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪5d ago

TIL that updating U-Boot for your #arm64 can improve OS hardware compatibility.

Gotta to (re)do all my tests and observation on the #ROCKPro64 as it has changed things... at least on OpenBSD...

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𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪6d ago

I think this #GoToSocial instance ran on #OpenBSD #arm64 using #ODROID HC4 is doing pretty well while eating (only) 5W.

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪6d ago

yeah… I know… but hey! 🤷‍♂️
#ROCKPro64 #arm64 #RunBSD

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪Apr 2

Once, someone asked what was the weirdest platform you run GtS on. Well...

This message was sent from #GoToSocial running on an #OpenBSD #arm64 board (#ODROID HC4).

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𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪Apr 2

Compiling #Go and #NodeJS stuff on an #OpenBSD #arm64 board is quite visible from a #Grafana point of view... Interesting thing is all cores are used in parallel; in case you wonder is this OS is thread-aware.