Oh, wow — it hasn’t even been a full day since I sent this out...and already enough of you have chipped in enough to buy not just a single M1 system for Patrick, but also a second one for his partner in crime, Mark Kettenis.
Thank you to all! This show of generosity and support and excitement is most welcome. (And, frankly, a bit overwhelming.) If anybody reading this still wishes to donate to the cause, despite the immediate needs being met, the money will be put to good use. There are other developers who will eventually need their own hardware, and there are always other sorts of expenses related to development. Feel free to chip in at Patrick’s original link: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8uPSkfNJMp ...or, of course, to the OpenBSD general fund (which can *ALWAYS* use donations): https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html Thanks again, everybody! b& > On Dec 2, 2020, at 2:59 PM, Ben Goren <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, all! > > Patrick Wildt has set up a PayPal pool to raise funds to purchase an M1 Mac > mini so he can start porting OpenBSD to the platform. If you’d like to be > able to run OpenBSD on an M1 system, now would be a great time to throw some > pennies his way. > > The donation link: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8uPSkfNJMp > > Read below for an idea of what one might expect if we can get a machine into > Patrick’s hands. > > Cheers, > > b& > > Patrick wrote: > >> Yes, kettenis@ and me are the two ones doing the major work on porting >> to new devices. Not sure if kettenis@ is interested, but I can ask him. >> I definitely am, a Mac Mini as a dedicated machine to do stuff with and >> not care about what is installed would really help. >> >> Marcan has started a crowdfunding on Patreon. He's a really capable >> person, and he'll definitely lay a lot of groundwork needed for porting >> OpenBSD to the platform. He apparenetly will also do his work in a >> dual-licensed fashion, so the BSDs will easily profit from it. >> >> So, the first steps are basically to follow Marcan's work and use all >> that information and code to port OpenBSD as well. >> >> This *will* take some time, because essentially there are only the >> binary drivers, but it's doable and I think with a bit of patience >> we will have OpenBSD running on the M1 as well. >> >> Biggest hurdle, as always, will be support for graphics acceleration.
