Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:55:39 -0400 From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... Message-ID: <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> References: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de>
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On Oct 12, 2012, at 04:39 , Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> 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
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