I am willing to sponsor the hardware for a FreeBSD/Arm port to the Samsung Exynos 4412

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 23:47 +0100, lars.sonchocky-helldorf at hamburg.de
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> 
> I am very interested to get FreeBSD running on my Odroid U2, which
> sports a Samsung Exynos 4412 SoC.
> 
> Since I lack the skills to do the port myself, I am willing to buy an
> Odroid U2 for somebody, who is then porting FreeBSD to that Chip.
> Here is my idea:
> 
> The Odroid U2 https://www.hardkernel.com/ko/tag/odroid-u2/ (or Odroid
> U3, which is compatible) is no longer in production but remainders of
> stock are still available, for instance here:
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/ODROID-ODROID-U2/dp/B017L0ACEU
> 
> If you want to do the port, send me your shipping address, I then buy
> the Odroid U2 and let it ship to you.
> 
> How does this sound? Any takers?
> 
> 
> Some additional information is available here:
> 
> https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/odroid-u2
> http://linux-exynos.org/wiki/Samsung_Exynos_4412
> 
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> 

Don't hold your breath... it's probably not the cost of the hardware
that has prevented anyone from doing this work.  32-bit isn't sexy
anymore.  Also, it appears that there are no public documents for the
chip, that's a big show-stopper.

-- Ian