how to get freebsd on a new board?

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 22:27 -0700, Antoni Sawicki wrote:
> 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 would like for it to happen sooner than eventually. The reason is
> that
> HC2 https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/ would
> be a
> perfect NAS box if FreeBSD would run on it. There is nothing else
> like it
> and I really don't want to run Linux. HC2 is XU4 in a smaller form
> factor.
> 
> So the question is how to do it without spending $50k. I can probably
> put
> down some money.
> 
> 
> > iirc, mmel@ should be porting FreeBSD on it, so you can ask him.
> > 
> 
> Thank you! I will try!
> 
> 

I had a quick look and got briefly excited about the idea of 4x2ghz
cores + sata + gige.  But then I noticed the sata is really usb3, not a
deal-killer, but not as nice as real sata.

But then I found the deal-killer:  the docs for the exynos chip are not
available without an NDA, and getting an NDA appears to be difficult. 
Chances are you'll never see freebsd running on this.

-- Ian