From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 22:15:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE0D48F for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:15:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x229.google.com (mail-ia0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438AC74B for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f169.google.com with SMTP id j5so565007iaf.28 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:15:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BMjJLSZWB4FtMcVWtnXfBsLaQfu8SZqD+zbaiJaoBR0=; b=lQlp0c/5p/jnkBjjy+Ec5SluWbt81iPFB4ktVqDv4wT/Y4EeuDJIsskbZ8Ozgm/yrU +gZx9uVID/yLApLFz9NxOXCQRND1jkNuPvEY7VpYHOauEA6KVcUaAgNiQvSJHfmKprCf xuS8JscK1/4INp3SF4EJuC1oZUQ9/yTPSYkkKwmh36DYLz4jhyv0ZI44ZWs1x1N7d4lm zYt2aVE8C1mxOFSnEsI9jagMC3m0UuNtzCIYPnDA5WEddE45rUq9c5EZpJqIr8pzH7Ji kqWltfvkwfxOEbhrkwaFg37IJi1NCHxsLrCNu0xk7F0/Hj5VOm13afObf0qtRDnpFJM3 +wYA== X-Received: by 10.43.9.137 with SMTP id ow9mr11357252icb.32.1360707326854; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id nh1sm16294880igc.4.2013.02.12.14.15.25 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:15:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <511ABEF6.8060400@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:15:18 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ? References: <1360690312.66225.YahooMailClassic@web126106.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1360690312.66225.YahooMailClassic@web126106.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:15:27 -0000 On 2/12/2013 11:31 AM, Mm Bsd wrote: > > The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant > of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it. > > Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that > mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ? > > Without getting into the specifics of loading the system > (and using a touchscreen as input), would plain old amd64 > FreeBSD run on this device ? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You would need a bootloader, since I doubt it uses UEFI an I'm not sure. None of the drivers are probably supported, so you'll probably need to write device drivers, everything from graphics to storage. By the time you're done and have something workable, it will be so out of date it will be a relic. Linux already supports a lot, and for embedded, because of Android, the chipset makers have to have working linux drivers to sell chips. Including getting the datasheets, it's outside the scope of an independent developer. Now if you're Google and you want to get rid of every vestige of GPL out of Android, it'll be ready to ship by the end of the year, on ARM and amd64.