raspberry pi 4

[Johannes Lundberg]

On 7/9/19 8:17 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:52:43AM +0900, Denis Polygalov wrote:
>> but please let's enhance support of the good OS (FreeBSD)
>> on a *good* boards.
> Despite any technical advantages or disadvantages, RPI has the most
> mindshare, and we would be foolish to avoid it.

Indeed. SBCs come and go. They are EOL before we even have a boot
prompt. Personally I would like to see a joint effort focused on one
board and make that work really well. Maybe an incentive would be the
foundation throwing money at it in the form of rewards for well defined
sub projects. The one most likely to survive longest is RPI but there
might be other valid alternatives as well. Thanks to Emmanuel's efforts
maybe Pine64 is a good alternative? I'm happy to help with graphics if
we would do such focused effort but as long as we're all over the place
I don't see much point in contributing with the limited time I have...

Please note, this is not criticism in any way and I'm not trying to
diminish the work developers do on these boards. Everyone is free to
work on what they want. Question is, do we want a single board computer
that's actually usable for something or only as tinker toys? Without
direction, I'm afraid they will always be half working tinker toys due
to the limited amount of developers we have.

If anyone disagrees, I welcome your point of view.

>
> Disclaimer: I'm already grossly overcommitted, but of course if someone
> handed me a board, a set of specs, and a large check, anything could
> happen :-)
>
> mcl
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