From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Tue Jul 9 07:43:06 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8F715D2C79 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2019 07:43:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob21.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob21.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE06584917 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2019 07:43:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail01pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.35]) by atl4mhob21.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x697gwLg158805 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2019 03:42:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 48680 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jul 2019 07:42:58 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.177.25 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.177.25) by 0 with ESMTPA; 9 Jul 2019 07:42:58 -0000 Subject: Re: how to get freebsd on a new board? To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: <771acd93-5de5-250d-287e-18f2dcc20c2a@blastwave.org> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 03:42:58 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: BE06584917 X-Spamd-Bar: +++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [5.44 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.63)[ip: (1.13), ipnet: 209.17.112.0/21(1.17), asn: 19871(0.93), country: US(-0.06)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.82)[0.825,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx1.netsolmail.net]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[115.115.17.209.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.99)[0.994,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19871, ipnet:209.17.112.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[blastwave.org] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 07:43:06 -0000 On 7/9/19 3:29 AM, Antoni Sawicki wrote: > I'm new to this so hi all! > > I would like to get support on a new board, which is Odroid XU4. I'm not > talking about hacking together uboot and running arm generic image. My > question is how to get an official support so that images are automatically > generated for future releases. > > Is there an official way of lobbying for such a thing? > Send hardware and some bribe? > Bounty? > Contract? I think a quick quarter million dollars is a good start. :-) Personally I am trying to hack around with an ASUS Tinkerboard and it is just a pain to deal with. So I get it. I do. Sorry, don't have a quick quarter million $ laying about however. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional