Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

Arnaud Lacombe lacombar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 15:09:32 UTC 2011


Hi,

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 4 November 2011 07:53, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, referring to the technology two years ago in computer science is
>> just like referring to the Prehistory to make a point about mankind
>> today :/
>
> .. and that's actually a valid thing to do. Not everything old is:
>
> * irrelevant;
> * not applicable;
> * useless to know.
>
> I think something high profile like the Pi would be great to support.
>
I heard the same thing about NetBSD and OpenMoko 3 or 4 years ago,
nothing came through and it was just a rather standard ARM926.

> So, let's do it. ;)
>
I still haven't heard from either gber@, cognet@ about the current
status of `projects/armv6', especially wrt. known issues.

 - Arnaud


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