Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:32:03 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mru258@yahoo.com Subject: Re: is it possible to install freebsd on tablet? Message-ID: <20120728063203.GA2200@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <201207241223.q6OCN3SR063819@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <1343129654.559.YahooMailNeo@web140701.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <201207241223.q6OCN3SR063819@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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El día Tuesday, July 24, 2012 a las 07:23:03AM -0500, Robert Bonomi escribió: > > > From: Mr U <mru258@yahoo.com> > > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:34:14 -0700 (PDT) > > Subject: is it possible to install freebsd on tablet? > > > > hi > > > > I have a question, is it possible to install freebsd (or netbsd) on an > > android tablet? > > Authoritative answer: > "Theoetically poszible? yes. > Realistically doable? Maybe". > > And it's a _big_ "maybe". > > It depends on the -exact- hardware details of the tablet device in question. > > If the particular make/model of tablet is not explicitly listed in the > 'supported hardware' list ffor the vesion of FreeBSD that you are consideing, > then it will take a -lot- of research to deteming whether FreeBSD will > run without modification on that device. > ... I would be better to spent such efforts in porting FreeBSD to an open device, and not to such propriety beast; there have been steps in the past to port to Openmoko Freerunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeBSD I'm using such a mobile as my one and only daily cell phone, but it still runs a Linux distribution, SHR http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11 | UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2 | FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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