Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

[Bryan R. Hinton]

I would be interested in helping out with this.

Bryan


On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Nate Dobbs wrote:

> 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
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