Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:32:17 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net> To: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> Cc: arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-arm on apple TV Message-ID: <20100920203217.da6a7a8e.ray@ddteam.net> In-Reply-To: <4C9740EA.1030600@exonetric.com> References: <4C9740EA.1030600@exonetric.com>
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:09:30 +0100 Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Would anyone care to speculate on how hard it would be to run FreeBSD on > the Apple TV, now that it's ARM based? > > http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html > > I suppose there's at least two big elements > > a) can you actually get a FreeBSD boot media into the boot sequence somehow? > > b) How far is the A4 from the existing ports? > > Anyway, just curious. > > Cheers, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, I have experience with D-Link STB and Media Players, and found all of those hardware have open source OS (Linux in most cases), but drivers for video decoders/encoders shipped as binary, and CPU without support from decoder can`t do realtime decoding of streams, even if it is MPEG2. -- Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
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