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That is from 2012: in 2012 Raspberry Pi was a closed platform, not at all recommended: https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi http://whitequark.org/blog/2012/09/25/why-raspberry-pi-is-un...

Things have only started to change recently when BroadCom released some documentation: https://libv.livejournal.com/26434.html

There is some support for OpenBSD on ARM, for hardware that is more open than the Raspberry Pi: http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html

The following "Blob" song and notes explain why they don't do it:

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39

And I agree with it entirely :)

It's not that Theo & co oppose it per se. It's that they are not interested in working on it, for a number of good reasons. If you are interested and willing to do the work to get it running (with free software), I'm sure somebody will take a look at the diffs you send to tech@. Chances are you'll also have to maintain the work.

Well the Beaglebone Black is supported which is pretty much a more powerful Raspberry Pi and only costs $10 more.

Anywhere you can actually buy one, though? They seem to be on backorder everywhere I've checked.