Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:48:17 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi Message-ID: <4F5A2641.6070903@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <4F5A1CFB.3050706@bananmonarki.se> References: <20120307204923.GA19514@hemlock.hydra> <BAY165-ds72BD008F3EF7BF61F62D8CA560@phx.gbl> <20120307214008.GA25783@hemlock.hydra> <4F5872F7.6040908@qeng-ho.org> <20120308184628.GB8035@hemlock.hydra> <4F5A1CFB.3050706@bananmonarki.se>
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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.
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