Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:51:03 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> References: <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <BAY165-ds72BD008F3EF7BF61F62D8CA560@phx.gbl> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra>
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On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: >> People have not had a chance to get their hands on to even start on it yet. >> The few boards out in public before last week were developer boards that >> were really hard to get a hold of. Most current devel is based on linux due >> to the binary blob. > > Okay, that makes sense. Thanks. > > If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry > Pi, or comes up with more in the next few weeks, I'd appreciate it if > someone would let me know (perhaps with URIs or contact information for > people and projects working on this). > There was a discussion about it over on hackers@ last November. The thread starts at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-November/036742.html TL;DR summary: some are wildly in favour of it, others are completely negative. I.e. the usual network response to anything :-} Unless someone capable and willing to do the port managed to get one of the first production batch, the next lot won't be available for 7-8 weeks at the earliest. My order is currently expected to be delivered the second week in May.
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