From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 15:48:24 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 C57CF106564A for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:48:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EDC8FC08 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q29FmHjh036084 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:48:17 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4F5A2641.6070903@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:48:17 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120219 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org> <20120308184628.GB8035@hemlock.hydra> <4F5A1CFB.3050706@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <4F5A1CFB.3050706@bananmonarki.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:48:24 -0000 On 03/09/12 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-03-08 19:46, Chad Perrin skrev: >> 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. >> >> >>> >>> 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. >> >> That helps me get sort of a timeline in mind, I think. >> > The production is halted. > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781 The key sentence is: > There may now be a slight delay in later batches if there’s a problem > sourcing enough magnetic jacks (we’ve got teams hunting them down > already); all the stock of jacks we believed we had in place and > ready to turn into the ethernet ports on your Raspberry Pis turn out > not to be the correct part, so we’re having to start again and move > through the negotiating/ordering/delivery cycle as fast as we can. Somewhat more conditional than a simple "halted" to my eyes. That could be me being optimistic but I hope not.