From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 15:38:00 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9941A682 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.bein.link (bein.link [37.252.124.82]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DC207B0 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.bein.link (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CDE971AF1A2; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:37:52 +0000 From: Maxim V Filimonov To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabyte shipping *Linux-only* ARM server board Message-ID: <20150325153752.GA85395@bein.link> Mail-Followup-To: Maxim V Filimonov , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:38:00 -0000 On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:34:57AM -0400, scratch65535@att.net wrote: > MP30-AR0. Big specs. > > "Without stating the obvious, these machines were not designed to > run anything other than Linux at the bare metal level. The other > potential pain point for integrators or end users is that the > only currently supported operating system is Ubuntu 14. Over > time, one would hope this would expand to cover other systems in > use, such as Debian and RedHat." > > Does this bother anyone but me? The only thing that bothers me is "how is making that on the bare metal level even possible?" -- wbr, Maxim Filimonov