Re: freebsd on an ebook ereader ?

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 12:18:48 UTC
I still have the old "Samsung / Google Nexus 10" tablet. I don't like
Android. Any help to install FreeBSD instead of Android on this device is
appreciated. Thanks.

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 10:30 PM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 8:47 PM Mario Marietto wrote:
> > Hello Tomek.
> > ---> In a perfect world we could focus on RISC-V based devices.
> > I don't know any RISC-V based devices. Please give me some examples.
>
> RISC-V is the future of computing hardware Open-Source CPU
> specification that gets more and more traction around the world
> starting from tiny MCU like ESP32-C3 or ESP32-C6 (WiFi and BLE
> capable), along with dedicated IC for mass storage controllers (used
> by WD and Seagate for instance), along with OS capable running devices
> (more powerful than rPI), ending up at highly experimental designs
> that you can run yourself on FPGA and will serve to design 1000 core
> CPU, neural networks accelerators, building satellites and space ship
> onboard systems, 128-bit+ architectures, etc etc.
>
> RISC-V as Open-Source design has no boundaries, no limitations, is no
> subject to politics and no single group of influence/interest. Due to
> lack of restrictive licensing resulting MCU/CPU chip is a lot cheaper
> and thus accessible (i.e. ESP32-C3 RISC-V BLE and WiFi MCU cost around
> $0.6/piece compared to $3/piece ARM Cortex-M0+ with BLE and no WiFi
> and a magnitude smaller memory).
>
> We may not fix the past but we can prepare for the future :-)
>
> https://riscv.org/about/
>
> https://riscv.org/exchanges/boards/
>
> https://riscv.org/risc-v-developer-boards/
>
> https://www.sifive.com/boards
>
> https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards
>
> https://pine64.com/product/star64-model-a-8gb-single-board-computer/
>
>
> https://riscv.org/news/2022/09/nasa-selects-sifive-and-makes-risc-v-the-go-to-ecosystem-for-future-space-missions-sifive-business-wire/
>
>
> https://riscv.org/news/2020/12/et-soc-1-chip-with-more-than-1000-risc-v-cores-aimed-at-accelerating-machine-learning-abhishek-jadhav-hackster-io/
>
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/sifives-brand-new-p550-is-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-risc-v-cpus/
>
>
> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=risc-v
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
>


-- 
Mario.