Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> [Please do not top-post.] > > > > Please trim messages. > > > >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Nate Dobbs <misconfigurat...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> 10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used processor; > >>> > >> Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete" > >> (even if still used, for sure) ... > > > > Clearly price is an issue for this device. What's so bad about ARM11 > > that it shouldn't be used? > > > If you read my original comment, I did point out the $25 price tag was > pretty much the only interesting thing. Now, what it has been designed > for, multimedia, is going to be handled by a closed-source binary blob > without datasheet, so let me turn back the question: what do you > expect doing with it ?
Agreed. I'll always prefer a $150 device with useful documentation over a $25 toy which may or may not work depending upon the phase of the moon. > >From my point of view, I would be more interested into bringing up > FreeBSD on ARMv7 (ie. Cortex A[89]), rather than any previous, but the > effort is clearly not the same. > > - Arnaud Kevin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"