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From: Mario Sangiorgio <mariosangiorgio@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:59:26 +0000
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I'd be happy to contribute.

I'm experienced with programming but I've never written a port.
Is there any handbook/wiki page I can have a look at?


On Sun Nov 02 2014 at 5:28:17 PM Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 2, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Mario Sangiorgio <mariosangiorgio@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you all for your answers. As soon as I'll get a serial console usb
> cable I'll install FreeBSD on my Raspberry Pi.
> >
> > Regarding the update, is it just a matter of copying the new version of
> these files [1] in /boot?
>
> Yes.
>
> If you want to help, you could contribute a port that would do this so
> people could update their systems in-place.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
>