On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:12:35 -0400 Arnaud Lacombe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:22 +0100 > > Lars Engels <[email protected]> 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. > > > Are you kidding ? Every time when i see "Mail From: Arnaud Lacombe" i have bad feeling, I'm alone with that feeling? Sorry Arnaud, now I really kidding. :) Please, stop broadcast demotivation for peoples to not do something. This is your opinion, and we respect your opinion. But as many hackers already said: hackers don't doing something what is modern or required by market, hackers doing things that they like. > > ARM11 is a 10 year old core, not much to be really proud with. The > only interesting thing about the Pi is its price tag, but as you point > out, if we don't have datasheets upfront, it's not going to be much > than a $25 paper-weight. i486 CPU - released 22 years ago, but many peoples found Soekris as very useful device. MIPS R24K - 8 years old, but it widely used in SOHO embedded systems. > > Btw, do FreeBSD provide any KPI for hardware video "accelerator" ? > AFAIK, we do not even have such framework for crypto accelerator, so I > serious doubt there is any for video :/ We have some limitations to not implement that? > > - Arnaud > > > 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. > > > > WBW > > -- > > Aleksandr Rybalko <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[email protected]" > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[email protected]" WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
