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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:53:28 -0000 On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 11:03 +0000, Greg V wrote: > > Feb 28, 2020 4:09:43 AM bob prohaska : > > > In a thread entitled "how to get freebsd on a new board?" it's > > suggested that a port of FreeBSD to a new platform would cost > > $20-50K, presumably with manufacturer support. Let's suppose > > it'll cost $100K if the manufacturer won't help. > > It's funny to hear massive cost estimates for something that's been > hobbyist/volunteer work a lot of the time :) > It may not always be as "hobbyist" as you think. I put a lot of hours (er, months) into helping get freebsd running on armv6/v7 hardware in general and on imx6 in particular. The company I contract to paid in the $50-100k range for my time in doing so. I easily spent that many more hours of my own time working on it that I didn't bill them for, so all in all it worked out to be about half-hobbyist. :) And most of what I do in ongoing freebsd work now is pure hobbyist, except for the rare occasions when we start using some new i2c chip or something at $work that needs a driver written. -- Ian