From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 08:51:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04831106564A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:51:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820158FC14 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q288p3iv031326; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:51:04 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:51:03 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120219 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chad Perrin References: <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:51:16 -0000 On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: >> People have not had a chance to get their hands on to even start on it yet. >> The few boards out in public before last week were developer boards that >> were really hard to get a hold of. Most current devel is based on linux due >> to the binary blob. > > Okay, that makes sense. Thanks. > > If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry > Pi, or comes up with more in the next few weeks, I'd appreciate it if > someone would let me know (perhaps with URIs or contact information for > people and projects working on this). > There was a discussion about it over on hackers@ last November. The thread starts at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-November/036742.html TL;DR summary: some are wildly in favour of it, others are completely negative. I.e. the usual network response to anything :-} Unless someone capable and willing to do the port managed to get one of the first production batch, the next lot won't be available for 7-8 weeks at the earliest. My order is currently expected to be delivered the second week in May.