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Larry Rosenman wrote this message on Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 21:13 -0500:
> I got 2 Intel SoC's at the Intel IOT Hackathon here in Austin this 
> weekend.
> 
> They are both I586/Pentium processors, with some other stuff hanging 
> out.  They currently run Yactoh Linux.
> 
> I'm wondering how hard it would be to get FreeBSD up on them....
> 
> They are the Galileo Gen 2, and Edison boards.
> 
> Any ideas on how/where to start?

Just install FreeBSD on them?  If you can't boot from USB, it isn't
hard to build and install a new dist on an SD card or other
media to boot from..

I recently ran up FreeBSD on an old K6/200, so close to same era, and
it just worked...

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