From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 14:30:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDEB106566C for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@freebsd.org) Received: from dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1C38FC17 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.99.1] (helo=terran.dlink.ua) by dlink.ua with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RLxkd-00069N-9k; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:54:40 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:58:02 +0200 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: Lars Engels Message-Id: <20111103155802.7bfc1df0.ray@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net> Organization: FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:30:38 -0000 On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100 Lars Engels wrote: >> Hi Hackers, >> >> maybe you've heard of the upcoming Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized >> ARM computer which is about to get sold for 25$ - 35$ from december >> on. >> >> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/302 >> >> Hardware details: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#Hardware_Details >> >> The first charge will be 10,000 pieces, so there's a fair chance that >> one can actually buy a board. >> >> If someone is willing to port FreeBSD to the Raspberry, I'd try to >> get one of the boards and send it to the porter. >> >> Cheers >> Lars Hi Lars, I seen info about Raspberry Pi, this is very nice hardware. It will be fun to port FreeBSD on it, since I already have experience with Broadcom SoC's. But device have undocumented parts, so writing driver for it maybe impossible or very hard (through a lot of RE). Anyway, it would be nice to play with it. WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko