Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 22:51:52 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, Nate Dobbs <misconfiguration@gmail.com>, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>, Ben Gray <ben.r.gray@gmail.com> Subject: FreeBSD on ARM Cortex board [Was: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi] Message-ID: <CACqU3MVeNPrnv74O=dDrBBasC_PwaLmLnmAsYJVQPdSHkktgPA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, [Starting a new thread, added Ben Gray to the Cc: list] On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Nate Dobbs <misconfiguration@gmail.com> = wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday, =A03 November 2011 at 21:05:54 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote= : >>> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org= > >>> > wrote: >>> >> On Thursday, =A03 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wr= ote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Nate Dobbs >>> >>> <misconfiguration@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used >>> >>>> processor; >>> >>>> >>> >>> Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" >>> >>> (even if still used, for sure) ... >>> >> >>> >> Clearly price is an issue for this device. =A0What's so bad about AR= M11 >>> >> that it shouldn't be used? >>> >> >>> > If you read my original comment, I did point out the $25 price tag wa= s >>> > pretty much the only interesting thing. Now, what it has been designe= d >>> > for, multimedia, is going to be handled by a closed-source binary blo= b >>> > without datasheet, so let me turn back the question: what do you >>> > expect doing with it ? >>> >>> That's not turning back the question; that's a separate question. =A0Bu= t >>> it's a good one. =A0I don't really see it as a multimedia device. =A0My >>> interest would be in little embedded agents in different parts of the >>> house, for things like measuring temperatures. =A0I'm sure lots of othe= r >>> applications will come to mind. >>> >>> And yes, I'll probably use the supplied Linux port. =A0But if a FreeBSD >>> alternative becomes available, I'd certainly prefer that. >>> >>> Greg >>> -- >>> Sent from my desktop computer >>> Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. >>> See complete headers for address and phone numbers. >>> This message is digitally signed. =A0If your Microsoft MUA reports >>> problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua >> >> I agree with groggy, something I'd personally use it for is a small SSH >> server to allow a pinhole into my home network. It would serve as a very >> good replacement for the mac mini that's sitting in my DMZ simply handli= ng >> connections for my SSH tunnel so I can bypass the proxy at work. >> >> Power savings would be significant and it would be plenty powerful to ha= ndle >> this task. A small webcam server comes to mind as well; there could be >> plenty of useful things I could think of outside the realm of multimedia= . >> > you certainly want: > > http://beagleboard.org/bone > > $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect > being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) > actually, some initial work has been started by Ben Gray: http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard-freebsd/ and https://gitorious.org/+freebsd-omap-team/freebsd/freebsd-omap/ - Arnaud
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