Points to ponder Re: Showstoppers for RPI3

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 11:03 +0000, Greg V wrote:
> 
> Feb 28, 2020 4:09:43 AM bob prohaska :
> 
> > In a thread entitled "how to get freebsd on a new board?" it's
> > suggested that a port of FreeBSD to a new platform would cost
> > $20-50K, presumably with manufacturer support. Let's suppose
> > it'll cost $100K if the manufacturer won't help.
> 
> It's funny to hear massive cost estimates for something that's been
> hobbyist/volunteer work a lot of the time :)
> 

It may not always be as "hobbyist" as you think.  I put a lot of hours
(er, months) into helping get freebsd running on armv6/v7 hardware in
general and on imx6 in particular.  The company I contract to paid in
the $50-100k range for my time in doing so.  I easily spent that many
more hours of my own time working on it that I didn't bill them for, so
all in all it worked out to be about half-hobbyist. :)  And most of
what I do in ongoing freebsd work now is pure hobbyist, except for the
rare occasions when we start using some new i2c chip or something at
$work that needs a driver written.

-- Ian