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Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi
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Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday,  3 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 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 Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete"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 ?

Agreed. I'll always prefer a $150 device with useful documentation
over a $25 toy which may or may not work depending upon the phase
of the moon.

> >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

	Kevin