Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:57:07 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: announcing the availability of packages for the Arm architecture Message-ID: <op.wnci9hmm8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> In-Reply-To: <50983301.9040406@jetcafe.org> References: <CANuCnH_pKuUPhYe-AQ6MpK_XXPSdpft5zhQzEjFBSpfWAPRqKA@mail.gmail.com> <1351606727.1120.17.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <5097263F.5090802@jetcafe.org> <1D4ECD72-D01D-48D3-B837-735176CC49D3@kientzle.com> <50983301.9040406@jetcafe.org>
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:43:29 +0100, Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> wrote: > On 11/05/12 07:33, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> >> On Nov 4, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: >> >>> On 10/30/12 07:18, Ian Lepore wrote: >>>> All in all, I have the impression that not many people "use" freebsd >>>> on >>>> arm at all. Hi, I happily host my personal e-mail and a mailinglist on a Sheevaplug (about $80) running FreeBSD 9/ARM for more than a year. And use it to wakeup-on-lan my PC. Saving me electricity and noise. Just a me-too-example, but there is real world usage of all this work on ARM. Ronald. >>> >>> Just getting to the point of "using" it is quite time intensive. I ran >>> out of time trying to get my dreamplug to where I want it. These >>> issues were in my way (this was some time ago, check the list for >>> dates): >>> >>> - install requires non-trivial patches and kernel config >> >> There are a few people working on build systems to >> simplify this. My scripts work pretty much "out-of-the-box" >> for RaspberryPi and BeagleBone now and should be easily >> extensible to other platforms. > > Where are these scripts? I'd like to try them. > > Part of my problem is that I routinely build customized versions of > FreeBSD for specific applications, so I don't like just using a canned > script...I like to understand the process. Unfortunately there's a lot > of patching and config/make kernel/re-config cycles to get something > right. > >> FreeBSD ports team is now building packages for ARM. > > That's great news and I saw some of that. Some users might still like to > be able to customize a port build, but for most users that would be fine. > >> Even if you prefer a "more beefy" system like the DreamPlug >> or PandaBoard or Â… , consider getting a RaspberryPi as well >> and tinkering with that for a little bit. It's only $35. > > I saw that too. Let me say that those are amazing computers at an > awesome price. Add a cheap usb disk and you likely have a workable > desktop. The problem is, as usual, a lack of quality tinkering time in > my world. Once I get my dreamplug working as a firewall...maybe. :D
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