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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:10:32 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Alie Tan <alie@affle.com>
Subject:   Re: announcing the availability of packages for the Arm architecture
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On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> 
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
>> 
>> All in all, I have the impression that not many people "use" freebsd on
>> arm at all. 
> 
> The new inexpensive platforms such as RaspberryPi,
> BeagleBone, PandaBoard seem to be changing that.
> 
> How do we get more people excited about this?
> 
> I've considered writing up some of the specific tasks
> I see[0] and posting them as Junior Kernel Hacker
> projects on FreeBSD-hackers to get the attention
> of a slightly larger audience.
> 
> Tim
> 
> [0] For example:  framebuffer/syscons on RPi,
> convert BeagleBone MMCSD driver to use DMA,
> processor idle halting.

and power management in general...

Warner




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