From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 02:05:46 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 2BBA8106566B; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:05:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from misconfiguration@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDAC8FC12; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so2544439wyg.13 for ; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:05:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=FgrpUJXEPNEjIn+LFXJquQb84zPOEz4QjmEbGmHA0xA=; b=Tz6jkN5YsW63GJng83iwYPisT2js9YEP0lDZykWQxK95NwYRCouGVvzbB5suPGysSl YDDAknjwDoMBZ7pSIVg33UPRkn5RAkXMY8su1ULsshrmv0PWR7y2gVY/CzDyOuWpRFug XSsoDIVsMDBH0oOyvdag1NQs4LllaWFcgCKP4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.92.163 with SMTP id cn3mr184446wib.26.1320372344176; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.7.193 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 19:05:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111104015559.GE74831@dereel.lemis.com> References: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net> <20111103155802.7bfc1df0.ray@freebsd.org> <20111104004007.GA74831@dereel.lemis.com> <20111104015559.GE74831@dereel.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 22:05:44 -0400 Message-ID: From: Nate Dobbs To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:05:46 -0000 On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 21:05:54 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > wrote: > >> On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >>> 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 > processor; > >>>> > >>> Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" 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. What'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 ? > > That's not turning back the question; that's a separate question. But > it's a good one. I don't really see it as a multimedia device. My > interest would be in little embedded agents in different parts of the > house, for things like measuring temperatures. I'm sure lots of other > applications will come to mind. > > And yes, I'll probably use the supplied Linux port. But if a FreeBSD > alternative becomes available, I'd certainly prefer that. > > Greg > -- > Sent from my desktop computer > Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports > problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua > I agree with groggy, something I'd personally use it for is a small SSH server to allow a pinhole into my home network. It would serve as a very good replacement for the mac mini that's sitting in my DMZ simply handling connections for my SSH tunnel so I can bypass the proxy at work. Power savings would be significant and it would be plenty powerful to handle this task. A small webcam server comes to mind as well; there could be plenty of useful things I could think of outside the realm of multimedia. JMHO -- Cheers, Nate Dobbs RHCE