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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:56:07 +0300
From:      Sulev-Madis Silber <freebsd-arm-freebsd-org097@ketas.si.pri.ee>
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Subject:   Re: Beaglebone Black/Green/Blue support (volunteering)
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unsure why i gave parse errors, maybe i'm just weird, but anyway

yes, i do like ti am soc that powers bb*=2E awesome io=2E i got one board =
to get fbsd support better=2E it did get better=2E but i didn't get why ssh=
 lagged still=2E one of the issues funnily=2E why, i don't know=2E it didn'=
t perform bad in other ways=2E encryption perf issues? what if i want to us=
e trusted control channels like we all should nowadays

i also, yeah, don't like closed nature of hw that doesn't protect them fro=
m other companies, just makes more ewaste and headache=2E i don't think rep=
urposing phone soc is always bad, it's the closedown=2E phones make up larg=
e amount of hw=2E sadly no fbsd on phones either, with rare examples

that's why i'm looking other options besides rpi

and yes, i look things for remote monitoring and control=2E seems like ser=
ver/desktop/nas/video out is already pushed  by many others

and usb wifis do work=2E less as ap, more at sta=2E with realteks being ch=
eapest and worst

so i don't know, i understand that h618 specs are also under nda, iirc=2E =
h616 isn't iirc? but i find that area really difficult to navigate still=2E=
 why i look for those instead of bb* is cost=2E=2E=2E fun isn't it=2E bit l=
ess of io, bit less industrial, faster, cheaper=2E i don't mean desktop/ser=
ver/buildbox fast, just for headless

i'm also open for suggestions on hw=2E as i don't really make hw, let alon=
e ic's

like what's the least expensive thing with ~10 gpios that runs full fbsd a=
nd has 100m ethernet? 512m ram is enough, even 256m would be

one type of hw i'm looking for is this=2E i think it fits some of your pur=
poses too=2E i think in here, cheap doesn't mean shit, it just doesn't need=
 to "perform"

the others, running on fbsd, would be nice too, eg ability to run some gui=
=2E maybe xorg, firefox, js will work on some hw, tho i realize it has huge=
 overhead

and something with a storage

those are all components of usual scada systems, really

i know fbsd is used in some of those places already=2E and they need to be=
 secure=2E i think fbsd is good here=2E even if for os diversity=2E just so=
me time ago someone said that he has bbb's in high security facility and ca=
n't get them replaced=2E good if fbsd made it there

because if people say fbsd sucks i've never heard of fbsd is insecure, fbs=
d is unstable, fbsd has bad code=2E it's always that  fbsd doesn't support =
hw, fbsd is slow to adapt features, fbsd is stubborn=2E now, fbsd removes h=
w support=2E maybe it's price to pay for all goodness?
people joke how linux is a car with safety features removed=2E runs fast, =
runs everywhere, is built, even just kernel, from ton of components with un=
known background=2E yes, it does work really well this way=2E hence it's us=
ed! popular, attractive, works=2E even if worse, still works=2E since it "w=
orks" more, it also earns more money, hence it's developed for more, used m=
ore, tested more, even if something is bad=2E how sad, isn't it? that's how=
 i see it

there's a reason why i'm with fbsd for over half of my lifetime already=2E=
 but i can't really make hw support any better because i guess i'm not just=
 that guy

so yeah, i'm just wondering here what to choose if i want fbsd and tasks i=
 listed above=2E as a hobby but could do more here=2E but that assumes some=
thing works too=2E and keeps working for 10+ years=2E because you don't thr=
ow those things out, yet they still need be secure

unsure what nbsd focus was, runs everywhere? how do they do it there, i ne=
ver checked?

it would be crazy to move to linux because that just runs a lot of hw=2E d=
oesn't matter how

while thinking of all this, i would still want to use fbsd on a server rea=
lly well=2E so if that would mean embedded is gone, that's sad story=2E alt=
ho what is a "server" nowadays, is questionable=2E maybe in future the smal=
ler hw also gets x86 type standards so at least that part is solved=2E big =
machines have it=2E like lpt port which works as poor gpio=2E but it works =
same everywhere? ok there are issues in cpu power mgmt etc=2E as i said, th=
ere are better guys than me on this

so yeah, in the end, i don't know=2E some fbsd support would be nice=2E on=
 open hw=2E on various io/power level embedded devices=2E maybe not just ar=
m=2E continued support=2E but continued by who, i don't know=2E ai? mostly =
joking on this! but really=2E=2E=2E



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