From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 19:31:37 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 29BC9106566C for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 19:31:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from nm2.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm2.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.212.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B08E98FC13 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 19:31:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.215.142] by nm2.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Feb 2012 19:18:55 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.204] by tm13.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Feb 2012 19:18:55 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp213.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Feb 2012 19:18:54 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 974321.12697.bm@smtp213.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: yWR3LWkVM1mins5yDG2a9AU.jjwodMfRFQqv7r1R3FcLAaG Q9aBzQ.XXFVJ9qFByJ3J_WkMtzyRiy0pKQ6hWxqWBMGl71EAMcTF_Ao9tMlG O4i0W6syujheBVmBI8UgTJLFbSi9sHQx..RN02f_brakBWUMQ_7bVysvbC5p 4I4cfXL7oEXd2VLnDUe43Np.uICrT5YzCfdLvdPCrP5gcjV8xpGS1xqm4BAf He.xz0L4fwfTSaPg.4qRirGXGadMtK6djyftcHl2dloT_9I06LG9kbj3FEVi kZvdApIw4bPdbxEkos0PJ6oc20GRejjeGgjmempdRCKMHi3LI0V7A.Vd8IaX JenFtaNG.4NP9a_Zw0Lw7uo4FsyezauMttDlcTw__g3VJn1JbAI9OI2Yf1u4 W2GNMuqBhYgjksxgdyBf94Re1JpYQO3_nubQUPkYKvAljrbxM8d.YCqLlmVd JKqDAVZBBi1SO4WF..bk15wnxqQMNnOcgTQMRJZcqUbydARstmLyOx7vxWla cCxIFjjiFOV6G0ooD9EfwMRwC_ukXZU1nxrzH_OCdbmFaH3DAvdyDLoiYqcg lyHymAt2VgFTESo4BdFvMNahtKJcGcYYGmvJTp9BLzS14Iu0lBpc1tgaJp23 M_z0.vtUmzVGe_VccXMRlGtXGFTYoD3i6ELCiMNTBayKmMmFwfCGTXea93Tj .ArNZVEIRJxdjUzAbwEcTsSkLs7ZwMg3XTIx2OjG.Lird9qoCpQ-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: iDf2N9.swBDAhYEh7VHfpgq0lnq. Received: from [192.168.119.22] (se@81.173.141.140 with plain) by smtp213.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 08 Feb 2012 11:18:54 -0800 PST Message-ID: <4F32CA9D.4000305@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:18:53 +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: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:31:37 -0000 The Raspberry PI has just been announced to become available at the end of February and I'm just curious, whether it will be a good platform for FreeBSD. It is based on a Broadcom BCM2835 (ARM1176JZFS) for which a Technical Reference Manual and a "BCM2835 ARM Peripherals" document exist. The latter has just been announced in: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615 and can be found at: http://dmkenr5gtnd8f.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf Linux sources have also been published: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux I'm going to get one, anyway, and would like to support a porting effort to this platform. Video will not be possible, I'm afraid, but the Raspberry PI looks like a nice base for a cheap, small server (800k Dhrystones, some 60% of a BeagleBone AFAIK). Regards, STefan