Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

[Nate Dobbs]

10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used processor;
Unix is 43 years old does this make the Operating System obsolete?

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100
> > Lars Engels <lars.engels at 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.
> >
> Are you kidding ?
>
> ARM11 is a 10 year old core, not much to be really proud with. The
> only interesting thing about the Pi is its price tag, but as you point
> out, if we don't have datasheets upfront, it's not going to be much
> than a $25 paper-weight.
>
> Btw, do FreeBSD provide any KPI for hardware video "accelerator" ?
> AFAIK, we do not even have such framework for crypto accelerator, so I
> serious doubt there is any for video :/
>
>  - Arnaud
>
> > 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 at freebsd.org>
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-- 
Cheers,

Nate Dobbs RHCE