Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:58:02PM +0200, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100
> Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> 
> >> Hi Hackers,
> >> 
> >> maybe you've heard of the upcoming Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized
> >> ARM computer which is about to get sold for 25$ - 35$ from december
> >> on.
> >> 
> >> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/302
> >> 
> >> Hardware details: http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#Hardware_Details
> >> 
> >> The first charge will be 10,000 pieces, so there's a fair chance that
> >> one can actually buy a board.
> >> 
> >> If someone is willing to port FreeBSD to the Raspberry, I'd try to
> >> get one of the boards and send it to the porter.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> Lars
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> I seen info about Raspberry Pi, this is very nice hardware. It will be
> fun to port FreeBSD on it, since I already have experience with
> Broadcom SoC's. But device have undocumented parts, so writing driver
> for it maybe impossible or very hard (through a lot of RE).
> 
> Anyway, it would be nice to play with it.

Okay, I will see what I can do to get one for you. If it's not possible
to port FreeBSD to it, it wouldn't be the end of the world. I just read
of the thingy and thought that it would be nice thing to have. :)
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