From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 13:26:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C602106564A for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from nm16.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm16.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 766818FC08 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.63] by nm16.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Feb 2012 13:14:08 -0000 Received: from [208.71.42.190] by tm3.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Feb 2012 13:14:08 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp201.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Feb 2012 13:14:08 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 727966.32154.bm@smtp201.mail.gq1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: Ym4zIFwVM1n6p_IX8.dDZrsgAgCvnn1N.31lm5urukpRdhZ tOeAib2fhdi1NHNw9TR7eyGr8M5RetihPnl0mxgDI_kjl9euenBVRnoUdJWw gKNZiwEQKjSbAWv3.nU8fw8dGXxDJKRPLiywLeP7XHhys04HgbtF1PiaHD15 jQ6cxfAhgkFeZJfwJXqceN2ThMMneasD5fBjpiGZaog.4IjdFes75WmEzriH 24SIKk7TXh_ZYT1F_qWHnDfnB6EmPQI.V0XK67pTPRCFSFkNbwsno4OOFgKb 1Vtt2DTgLqOtQmJ.OxOetop3_UMX7QcW3Be2aQxpYtnzP0I8vGKaAeizgYPk f_UiK5TyHqwmWaPiEevsNdL24p_6bh.vEFbzhW8QTyfjTe.4Pai5HTF89PtV FaikMIGigSRt3._ObKk589G5C0PldqC9iCMf5dRjdgzdsBfZy8mTTxavPTyP cuNnuXwZtqvMeCE_uEZMDdwZhK6UPPUwm.kw6D13oXSVybq2hRRpbgC9IQhd IPGdwNV5i3LDOAGEIcnrMUG1Y6ZKpqVx30Pbsqfxc4A-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: iDf2N9.swBDAhYEh7VHfpgq0lnq. Received: from [192.168.119.22] (se@81.173.156.255 with plain) by smtp201.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 09 Feb 2012 05:14:08 -0800 PST Message-ID: <4F33C6A0.8020301@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:08 +0100 From: Stefan Esser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aleksander Dutkowski References: <4F32CA9D.4000305@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Raspberry PI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:26:52 -0000 Am 09.02.2012 12:15, schrieb Aleksander Dutkowski: > Hi Stefan! > > Here you have some topics from freebsd-hackers: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-November/036742.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-November/036748.html > > I am going to purchase one, so I could also help porting:) Hi Aleksander, thank you for the pointers to previous threads. I just had missed them in the hackers lists and did not find anything in the ARM list, so I asked. The threads indicate that a number of people was interested in looking at the Raspberry PI, and I think it is a great chance to have support for that device, since I expect it to become a huge success (not economically, since it is built by a non-profit organization, but with respect to visibility in the public). But we'll probably never be able to take advantage of its multi-media features, which is too bad. Well, then lets wait for the device to actually appear in the wild and see whether it is practical to start porting. AFAIK, there is just a (hard-coded) trivial primary boot loader that accesses the SD card. But having Linux (and Linux sources) for this device on a SD card will help to understand the hardware and then we'll see how far we get ;-) Regards, STefan