From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 15:12:35 2010 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 F0A9E1065675 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:12:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FC18FC1C for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmTXN-0007Hu-SC for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:57:29 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NmTXN-0001qf-PN for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:57:29 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o22EvT6T088521 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:57:29 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o22EvTuC088520 for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:57:29 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:57:29 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100302145729.GL63564@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: where to start? 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: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:12:36 -0000 I've been using fbsd on i386, alpha, ia64 and sparc64. I'd like to see what fbsd ARM can do for me. I can see some systems here http://www.simtec.co.uk/, but not sure what is possible to do with those. For example, can I have a graphical thin client built on ARM? This would be a box with some keyboard and a mouse, with full ports tree on some disk, and with X server running. Of course there must be a good ethernet connection to the server. Does this make sense at all? Or what about a portable ARM computer to be used for making presentations, something one can use instead of a laptop? Perhaps I'm asking the wrong questions alltogether.. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423