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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:16:48 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13
Message-ID:  <8BE05A88-D216-4023-AC6E-D6431C7BB3E1@googlemail.com>
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> Am 30.01.2020 um 14:07 schrieb Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>:
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> Hi,
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>> On 29 Jan 2020, at 21:36, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> =
wrote:
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>> --------
>> In message =
<20200129222907.3ccaf4c23fe8509e3f9cdfe4@bidouilliste.net>, Emmanuel =
Vadot writes:
>>=20
>>>> RPi's are a LOT easier to get hold of for hackers and in particular
>>>> for educators.
>>>=20
>>> In what way ?
>>> Real answer only.
>>=20
>> 1. Schools can get them through their usual suppliers of educational
>>  material, with a pretty decent discount, and with educational
>>  courses and materials, pretty much ready to go.
>>=20
>> 2. Most "maker-space" atuned electronics pushers carry them.
>>=20
>> 3. Big electronics pushers carry them.
>>=20
>> In re 1-3: No customs processing of shipment involved.
>>=20
>> 4. Cost, including shipping is below "trivial" threshold in most
>>  organizations.
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> RPi zero in particular is cheap enough to treat as a component.
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>> --=20
>> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
>> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
>> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe   =20
>> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by =
incompetence.
>=20
> --
> Bob Bishop
> rb@gid.co.uk
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Well, with all respect  but this discussion is so extremely useless. ..
In fact FreeBSD boots from uSD on the RPI4. from my quick reading of the =
sources afaik it was K. Evans who made it bootable with CPU-hacks and E. =
Vadot who made the u-boot ports.
The only problem seems to be that there is no public HowTo for =
uSD-preparation,
If I find the time I'll post a HowTo e.g. in the fbsd-forums for =
stopping=20
 the public user whining over the RPI and instead help the fbsd-project =
to get drivers to work :-)=20
=46rom the moment it has network(1st WIFI) it'll be a usable =
fbsd-gadget.
If somebody answers here : " yes, I want a HowTo and will help the =
fbsd-project",
I'll write a HowTo. ;-). If nobody wants to boot FreeBSD on the crappy =
RPI4 we can't help out :-)

Regards
Klaus=



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