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Date:      Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:51:03 +0000
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Raspberry Pi
Message-ID:  <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra>
References:  <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <BAY165-ds72BD008F3EF7BF61F62D8CA560@phx.gbl> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra>

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On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
>> People have not had a chance to get their hands on to even start on it yet.
>> The few boards out in public before last week were developer boards that
>> were really hard to get a hold of. Most current devel is based on linux due
>> to the binary blob.
>
> Okay, that makes sense.  Thanks.
>
> If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry
> Pi, or comes up with more in the next few weeks, I'd appreciate it if
> someone would let me know (perhaps with URIs or contact information for
> people and projects working on this).
>

There was a discussion about it over on hackers@ last November. The 
thread starts at

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-November/036742.html

TL;DR summary: some are wildly in favour of it, others are completely 
negative. I.e. the usual network response to anything :-}

Unless someone capable and willing to do the port managed to get one of 
the first production batch, the next lot won't be available for 7-8 
weeks at the earliest. My order is currently expected to be delivered 
the second week in May.



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