how to get freebsd on a new board?

Ganbold Tsagaankhuu ganbold at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 07:48:25 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 3:43 PM Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 7/9/19 3:29 AM, Antoni Sawicki wrote:
> > I'm new to this so hi all!
> >
> > I would like to get support on a new board, which is Odroid XU4. I'm not
> > talking about hacking together uboot and running arm generic image. My
> > question is how to get an official support so that images are
> automatically
> > generated for future releases.
> >
> > Is there an official way of lobbying for such a thing?
> > Send hardware and some bribe?
> > Bounty?
> > Contract?
>


If there is full documentation then someone may eventually make FreeBSD run
on it.
Otherwise best would be to make some contract work with some developer.



>
> I think a quick quarter million dollars is a good start. :-)
>
> Personally I am trying to hack around with an ASUS Tinkerboard and it is
> just a pain to deal with.  So I get it.  I do.
>

iirc, mmel@ should be porting FreeBSD on it, so you can ask him.

Ganbold




>    Sorry, don't have a quick quarter million $ laying about however.
>
>
>
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