From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 18:54:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7711065676 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 18:54:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F0B8FC1A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 18:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q28IsBCh085828 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:54:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4F59004E.5090401@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:06 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org> <20120308184628.GB8035@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20120308184628.GB8035@hemlock.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:13 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: q28IsBCh085828 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:54:28 -0000 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