From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Tue Aug 2 22:21:09 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1DDBAB83A for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:21:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x231.google.com (mail-vk0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 233201D79 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:21:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x231.google.com with SMTP id x130so133311970vkc.0 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:21:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g+SfSFvVUYdbosIEnqIFTWIM76yteAzTicJXPt5giG0=; b=vI8X8oN752bFamyHQZ/A9EctoYvQToi2dk2HRRPtjdtgDq/V6Pvf1ixLfifS98VuQV Wk43LZsJEMrATNwJw5q1bIO8ZYOyHVeL4hijbeFJjTHSh63s56qqzDJvx7QsyBaJLNDs qgI8FJTAKTZDQ72W0xQYZHh+jHFdrOoXJqPonn0xKtbje+p+ompkhaIEE75ROE8OOAFi R3kLJDSEwLkUBXghHBD76CFJrB71+EZSiiygeEtXwCEEKtCSvd7ufV9bRwZDeNInci/M zWey6Ffue+GBYM4F5sqot/jGnpBu8M5ICER7TcnGUrWJ6Nhlf5iw3IuFWIrl/YD5GJI1 j8OQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g+SfSFvVUYdbosIEnqIFTWIM76yteAzTicJXPt5giG0=; b=UtR3Oy6o7di6+P0yEdwkWvE2Xn5+Amdmhkgxi7kjJixZfDoMcjUS8k429u+7vCMTZ1 UuN6kx6sueUGH4WpVaPMggt0N3hZbDna+XhHZsejASttcQztOcj5e1NVka8EF1qOQ59K 9RXMSdhY6OAhFLbagGaBgRjvR6F1IRT3h3TGt3c3PthDbxBQNS7sEPghlomwu/kSEEES 9xjF2cSNgyE1bAhlN88sGAfrG35TaPWW6pSfxYRqPJpP4ZjuuMCsiyp91sucuha06nCU gZOi2BoA5m5blSP9ud2oBz9pN6YoecSyU/RIlJSS6G/3TulgCf+tRcPeqcg3+8nlhBNF 2ztg== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouuslAUxog99DKmAuTYQJD5oMFHAD8H/DZSe/IpSo2RA7037TBW9Q754SfI+unhb9cpNZWbLD0imYxZzeA== X-Received: by 10.31.201.71 with SMTP id z68mr2938903vkf.14.1470176468386; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:21:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.208.4 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:21:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Russell Haley Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:21:07 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Paid Support for iMX6 Port To: Michel Kohanim Cc: freebsd-arm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 22:21:09 -0000 On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Michel Kohanim wrote: > Hi Russell, thank you. > > If we cannot boot from an onboard flash, this will be a deal breaker for = us. In our current hardware, you can take the SD Card out and the system st= ill boots up. Furthermore, you can put a completely blank SD Card and then = reinstall everything since the system is running. As I mentioned earlier, there are things that can be done, but none of which I think are very desirable. What initially excited me on FreeBSD/Arm was the possibility of running ZFS on an SSD and have multiple boot environments and data snapshots using a multi-core Arm system with 1+ GB of RAM. Super robust and super fast. I've had to abandon all of that in my prototype. Russ