From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 09:57:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062E2D5A for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797238FC14 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVfu8-0007dc-3R for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:57:09 +0100 Received: from [81.21.138.17] (helo=ronaldradial.versatec.local) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TVfu6-0000UG-Vc for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:57:06 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: announcing the availability of packages for the Arm architecture References: <1351606727.1120.17.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <5097263F.5090802@jetcafe.org> <1D4ECD72-D01D-48D3-B837-735176CC49D3@kientzle.com> <50983301.9040406@jetcafe.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:57:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <50983301.9040406@jetcafe.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.02 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-Scan-Signature: 9b84bad32751a42de3aa9e7877f1ca86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:57:17 -0000 On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:43:29 +0100, Dave Hayes 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