From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 16:34:14 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 7AD861065673; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:34:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bryan@bryanhinton.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2439B8FC18; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnk3 with SMTP id k3so97085ggn.13 for ; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.195.4 with SMTP id o4mr14868189yhn.6.1320336166513; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.3.9.125] (cpe-72-190-90-102.tx.res.rr.com. [72.190.90.102]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z28sm10061849yhl.4.2011.11.03.09.02.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_C47FF6F3-D674-41EF-BB27-ECC8C7C4B67A"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: "Bryan R. Hinton" In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:03:34 -0500 Message-Id: <15565BBB-4669-42D2-8DCB-6B74B47DCBDF@bryanhinton.com> References: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net> <20111103155802.7bfc1df0.ray@freebsd.org> To: Nate Dobbs X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Aleksandr Rybalko , hackers@freebsd.org, Lars Engels , Arnaud Lacombe 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 16:34:14 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_C47FF6F3-D674-41EF-BB27-ECC8C7C4B67A Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I would be interested in helping out with this. Bryan On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Nate Dobbs wrote: > 10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used processor; > Unix is 43 years old does this make the Operating System obsolete? > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> Are you kidding ? >> >> ARM11 is a 10 year old core, not much to be really proud with. The >> only interesting thing about the Pi is its price tag, but as you point >> out, if we don't have datasheets upfront, it's not going to be much >> than a $25 paper-weight. >> >> Btw, do FreeBSD provide any KPI for hardware video "accelerator" ? >> AFAIK, we do not even have such framework for crypto accelerator, so I >> serious doubt there is any for video :/ >> >> - Arnaud >> >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Nate Dobbs RHCE > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Apple-Mail=_C47FF6F3-D674-41EF-BB27-ECC8C7C4B67A--