Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:33:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... Message-ID: <E8A50C0A-9E34-4E03-95A7-EA2336C0EC83@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com> References: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com>
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On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:55 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote: >=20 > On Oct 12, 2012, at 04:39 , Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> = wrote: >=20 >> Well, yes ... Since ARM ist still a tier-3 platform (AFAIK), >> releases probably won't happen in the near future. >>=20 >=20 > Though it could move up a tier as we get more of this moving along. I thought it already was tier 2. It meets all the criteria... >> I've seen Steven's comment. That's the direction that I had >> in mind. Much appreciated -- Thank you, Steven! >>=20 >=20 > 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. That would be cool. >> 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). >>=20 >> 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. :-) >>=20 >=20 > I don't think it's wishful. I'd love to have a collection of arm and armv6 packages from ports = too... It would also be helpful if we could have a single-image kernel that = boots on at least all the armv6 processors... Warner=
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