From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 13:55:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEC124E; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:55:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from vps.hungerhost.com (vps.hungerhost.com [216.38.53.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EE48FC21; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [209.249.190.124] (port=64599 helo=gnnmac.hudson-trading.com) by vps.hungerhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TMfiE-0001xX-Ms; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:55:39 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... From: George Neville-Neil In-Reply-To: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:55:39 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com> References: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> To: Oliver Fromme X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.hungerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - neville-neil.com Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:55:41 -0000 On Oct 12, 2012, at 04:39 , Oliver Fromme wrote: > Well, yes ... Since ARM ist still a tier-3 platform (AFAIK), > releases probably won't happen in the near future. > Though it could move up a tier as we get more of this moving along. > I've seen Steven's comment. That's the direction that I had > in mind. Much appreciated -- Thank you, Steven! > Let me talk to folks on the clusteradm@ list and see if there is a good place we can collect these that makes them a bit more official looking. At 4G that's a lot of download, especially once we get images for the Pi. > Of course I'm aware that such images haven't gone through > extensive testing and quality assurance like release images. > But it's something that gets people started very quickly > who just want to try it out without wanting to (or being > able to) build a working system image themselves. Or people > who would like to evaluate the platform for a certain > purpose (like me). > > I'm sure that ready-made images will help in spreading and > popularizing the platform, and maybe it'll even attract > more developers to improve it and port it to more boards, > and get it to tier-2 more quickly. But maybe that's just > wishful thinking. :-) > I don't think it's wishful. Best, George