Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 02:49:05 +0000 From: "Scott, Brian" <brian.scott4@det.nsw.edu.au> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hellmuth-michaelis.de> Subject: Re: RPi + FreeBSD + Xorg + XBMC player ? Message-ID: <C8DC6A1B-68FF-491C-8427-D5D9004FC328@det.nsw.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <5389281C.1070508@m5p.com> References: <53850478.3080302@wp.pl> <53854768.1020904@hot.ee> <7DB382CFB050654DBFF7A39B1F8056EB3320BEB4@WPEXCHMBUG1062.central.det.win> <20140530131619.1450b2fc@dijkstra-old.hb22.cruwe.de> <6585F7BE-4398-4062-A8F8-184BC049A6C2@hellmuth-michaelis.de> <53888166.2080407@selasky.org>,<5389281C.1070508@m5p.com>
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I find myself agreeing with this. In particular, lack of sound support makes it a poor choice for the OP. The lack of packages makes it difficult to do anything non-trivial. Building ports is very slow and requires a high level of technical expertise to correct makefiles when things break. Still, if we don't keep tinkering with it, it won't get any better. Brian On 31/05/2014, at 10:54 AM, "George Mitchell" <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote: > On 05/30/14 09:02, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The DMA patches might have to be redone to work with my recent code >> changes ... >> >>> >>> I had to apply the USB DMA patches to get acceptable network >>> performance and - you are right - some ports don’t compile (i.e. >>> pftop) or crash (don’t remeber which one it was) but all in all it >>> runs now for half a year without noticable problems. >>> >>> Hellmuth >>> >> >> --HPS >> > It was back in January 2013 when I bought a Pi, downloaded a prebuilt > image, compiled print/cups-base, and started using it as a print > server. Unfortunately, a bug (which Mr Selasky fixed for me) kept it > from talking to my Lexmark printer (though my HP printer worked with > no problem). It was a long time before I was able to build a custom > image, by which time we had EABI, clang, etc.; and to this day I still > haven't been able to build a working print server. -- George > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. **********************************************************************home | help
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