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Discussion on: Installing OpenBSD 7 on Raspberry Pi 3 (and 4)

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Andy Piper

Thanks for sharing. Is there any particular reason that you like OpenBSD over Debian / Raspberry Pi OS here? Also, I’m curious how you can update the Pi firmware from OpenBSD, the rpi-eeprom-update comes with Pi OS?

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Spacial

Great question Andy. I was interested on doing some firewall and VPN stuff for my home network. About updating the firmware, I didn't found any clue yet on OpenBSD (there are some firmware steps after syspatch that I didn't update the article yet, but I couldn't have time to verify if it is a device driver blob to talk to OpenBSD's kernel or if it is a raspberry pi firmware update blob, as soon I confirm this info, I'll update on text).

At this moment, I'll add a section to use Pi OS to update firmware before the OpenBSD installation.

Thanks for your attention and comment!

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Andy Piper • Edited

Great stuff, always interested to see what folks are doing with their Pi! It has been a long time since I've used a [*]BSD, so I was also curious about how it might work out.