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From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi
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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 Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete"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