Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 21:05:54 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: Nate Dobbs <misconfiguration@gmail.com>, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <CACqU3MVk47XAMvwSSie9nj%2BegFVXMnGCGMphqxuuHhKi=sVx2A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111104004007.GA74831@dereel.lemis.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> <CACqU3MU5zdfuymo4JZn3JMT2=AARhwbc%2BrY3jTVzX8bD=aJnfA@mail.gmail.com> <20111104004007.GA74831@dereel.lemis.com>
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Hi, On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrot= e: > On Thursday, =A03 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> [Please do not top-post.] > > Please trim messages. > >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Nate Dobbs <misconfiguration@gmail.com>= wrote: >>> 10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used process= or; >>> >> Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" >> (even if still used, for sure) ... > > Clearly price is an issue for this device. =A0What's so bad about ARM11 > that it shouldn't be used? > If you read my original comment, I did point out the $25 price tag was pretty much the only interesting thing. Now, what it has been designed for, multimedia, is going to be handled by a closed-source binary blob without datasheet, so let me turn back the question: what do you expect doing with it ? >From my point of view, I would be more interested into bringing up FreeBSD on ARMv7 (ie. Cortex A[89]), rather than any previous, but the effort is clearly not the same. - Arnaud
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