Re: Radxa Zero and FreeBSD : happy marriage ?

i see that you have chicken and egg problem here. you want to build a phone on fbsd. that could be maybe some high security device designed for governments at first, general public later. that could bring lot of development onto fbsd, resulting in higher popularity, funding too, all related to battery powered embedded devices. more security research (and malware :() too. the problem is that fbsd doesn't really support any of that. there is embedded and it's used even commercially but so much of work needs to be done that it would require a lot. i did read briefly that you even ended up having fights with people seemingly on who will do this work. i bet someone will, provided someone gives them food. that could come from people who buy this. hell, this needs whole team. there are big companies contributing, if you watch commit logs, but they focus on amd64 only. sorry to see this fizzling out as idea is super cool. perhaps you could build basically working prototype on something existing. i have h3 here which works well except it's 32bit so it's going out soon and video is hard if not impossible. (my project will not require video nor battery). but you know all that i see. this is not first time. i think openmoko freerunner poorly ran fbsd too, my friend had that working i recall. how you're going to pull it off i have no idea. i'm not good in any of those fields either. happy to test something tho. have a good luck with this masterpiece