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Twincat/BSD, try out on Raspberry possible?

I want to try out the new Twincat/BSD (delivery delay on Beckhoff). Is it possible, to get the official Twincat/BSD version running on a Raspberry 4?

Edit: I couldn't boot with the official Twincat/BSD, so i tried FreeBSD (Version FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210902-42c7760be3e-249088.img.xy), which workes fine. So there are things to be done i guess, does anyone have information about that?

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • TcBSD is possibly functional on most x86 and x64 systems, but not officially released for all beckhoff hardware (see https://www.beckhoff.com/de-de/produkte/ipc/produktfinder-ipc/ and filter for TcBSD).
    ARM devices are not supported by TcBSD at the moment, so the image will not work on a raspberry.
    I installed it in a virtual machine some time ago. Maybe this can be a temporary workaround for you too.