Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:03:34 -0500 From: "Bryan R. Hinton" <bryan@bryanhinton.com> To: Nate Dobbs <misconfiguration@gmail.com> Cc: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <15565BBB-4669-42D2-8DCB-6B74B47DCBDF@bryanhinton.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGjvUo6UpcsiTa-cyGM_Q_Em-9WOJLqM%2Bn_U6exJy_w2z%2B52RQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net> <20111103155802.7bfc1df0.ray@freebsd.org> <CACqU3MWo%2B2PAqdm71rvsh4f09-nBCnLi7s-VaZo8iHd92L8q_w@mail.gmail.com> <CAGjvUo6UpcsiTa-cyGM_Q_Em-9WOJLqM%2Bn_U6exJy_w2z%2B52RQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--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 <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100 >>> Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> 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 <ray@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" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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--
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