Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:08 +0100 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: Aleksander Dutkowski <adutkowski@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Raspberry PI? Message-ID: <4F33C6A0.8020301@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CABkKHSadN2AOJXeE0-0QMqrJwPgY8V0HaN7rx%2ByZ4qw1t72E9g@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F32CA9D.4000305@freebsd.org> <CABkKHSadN2AOJXeE0-0QMqrJwPgY8V0HaN7rx%2ByZ4qw1t72E9g@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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