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 Message-ID: <63A9EA2F-ABF9-4FE6-B5A2-22757441C3AC@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <8C022087-3BAB-424D-AD8D-C755EB6D68F9@freebsd.org> References: <CANuCnH_pKuUPhYe-AQ6MpK_XXPSdpft5zhQzEjFBSpfWAPRqKA@mail.gmail.com> <1351606727.1120.17.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <8C022087-3BAB-424D-AD8D-C755EB6D68F9@freebsd.org>
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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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