Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:29:47 +0800 From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org> To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, 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: <1320373787.2329.1.camel@nsl> In-Reply-To: <CACqU3MVk47XAMvwSSie9nj%2BegFVXMnGCGMphqxuuHhKi=sVx2A@mail.gmail.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> <CACqU3MVk47XAMvwSSie9nj%2BegFVXMnGCGMphqxuuHhKi=sVx2A@mail.gmail.com>
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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 Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" 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
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