Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:57:29 +0200 From: Christoph Roland Murauer <christoph_murauer@yahoo.de> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Cubieboard 2, UDOO and Galaxy Note 10.1 (Exynos). Message-ID: <76C12017-DC31-4F08-9A80-63508B8E6EF7@yahoo.de> In-Reply-To: <1379101800.1111.642.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <C085FFE7-994E-4371-B754-4846008E2048@yahoo.de> <CAGtf9xPDSy38_zDZssnfA8qqJjwUCQ_3yfoAm7DKYEzN3tdwUQ@mail.gmail.com> <1378866956.1111.608.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <F7549C24-7B19-402A-914D-B70C9E483EA4@yahoo.de> <1379101800.1111.642.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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Am 13.09.2013 um 21:50 schrieb Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>: >> I am not a developer / programmer (maybe planned to learn some C) but wha= t do you mean with =E2=80=9Ecode freeze" ? What could be done to get some pr= ogress at this topic ? >>=20 >=20 > FreeBSD is getting close to releasing 10.0, so right now we can't make > major changes to the source base, only fixes and changes that tend to > stabilize things for the upcoming release. Overall it's a great way to > get a solid release on existing platforms, but it's a bit hard to work > with right now in the ARM world where we have a lot of innovation > happening and suddenly we can't check in anything for a few weeks. >=20 I found http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/schedule.html and understand n= ow what you meaned before. Let's wait till FreeBSD 10 is there ... the bonus= is, that the tablet is then cheaper then now ;-) But would it be possible to run a FreeBSD with graphics on a tablet like the= new Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014) and if yes, what must be done / is needed ? > I've got USB up and running on my solo, btw, and I'm working on some > clock-and-power support that's a bit less of a hack than the ugly stuff > I did to get the board to boot at all. In a few days I think I'll be > able to publish a patchset anyone can use, even if I can't check it in > for a while. =20 >=20 > I also ordered a wandboard quad, so in a couple weeks I'll have figured > out what things I've foolishly done in a imx6-solo-specific way and > rework them to work right on the whole imx6 family. >=20 > -- Ian Yes, the wandboard quad is also a very interesting tool. C. M.
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