Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:06 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <4F59004E.5090401@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20120308184628.GB8035@hemlock.hydra> References: <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <BAY165-ds72BD008F3EF7BF61F62D8CA560@phx.gbl> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org> <20120308184628.GB8035@hemlock.hydra>
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On 03/08/2012 12:46 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:51:03AM +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: >> On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: >>> >>> 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 :-} > > I'm curious about the reasoning for the negative. I'll have to go skim > that thread. Thanks for pointing it out to me. > The complaints seemed to center around a lack of docs, but I don't think this is still relevant. The fact that several Linux variants are ported suggests plenty of available doc. Also, there is a detailed doc on the Broadcom chip on the RP website. Now, if we could just actuall GET the silly things it would be nice :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk
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