Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:58:02 +0200 From: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <20111103155802.7bfc1df0.ray@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20111103092222.GN37036@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100 Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote: >> Hi Hackers, >> >> maybe you've heard of the upcoming Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized >> ARM computer which is about to get sold for 25$ - 35$ from december >> on. >> >> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/302 >> >> Hardware details: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#Hardware_Details >> >> The first charge will be 10,000 pieces, so there's a fair chance that >> one can actually buy a board. >> >> If someone is willing to port FreeBSD to the Raspberry, I'd try to >> get one of the boards and send it to the porter. >> >> Cheers >> Lars Hi Lars, I seen info about Raspberry Pi, this is very nice hardware. It will be fun to port FreeBSD on it, since I already have experience with Broadcom SoC's. But device have undocumented parts, so writing driver for it maybe impossible or very hard (through a lot of RE). Anyway, it would be nice to play with it. WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>
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