Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Aleksandr Rybalko
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:53:27 -0500 Mark Tinguely wrote: > On 11/4/2011 11:02 AM, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > Hello, Arnaud. > > You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 19:48:29: > > > $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not > expect being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few y

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Mark Tinguely
On 11/4/2011 11:02 AM, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Arnaud. You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 19:48:29: $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) What is so special about A8? It is the consumer technology of today.

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Arnaud. You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 19:48:29: >>> $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect >>> being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) >>  What is so special about A8? >> > It is the consumer technology of today. The best people can afford > without

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, 2011/11/4 Lev Serebryakov : > Hello, Arnaud. > You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 6:30:18: > >> $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect >> being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) >  What is so special about A8? > It is the consumer technology of today. The be

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Arnaud. You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 18:53:22: > FWIW, referring to the technology two years ago in computer science is > just like referring to the Prehistory to make a point about mankind > today :/ Yep, completely relevant in most cases ;-) Same people, same wars, same love, same envy,

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 4 November 2011 07:53, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > FWIW, referring to the technology two years ago in computer science is > just like referring to the Prehistory to make a point about mankind > today :/ .. and that's actually a valid thing to do. Not everything old is: * irrelevant; * not applic

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 4 November 2011 07:53, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> FWIW, referring to the technology two years ago in computer science is >> just like referring to the Prehistory to make a point about mankind >> today :/ > > .. and that's actually a v

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, 2011/11/4 Lev Serebryakov : > Hello, Arnaud. > You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 6:30:18: > >> $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect >> being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) >  What is so special about A8? We have some ARM code in tree, is Cortex > SO di

sleep(3) hangs?

2011-11-04 Thread Ivan Voras
I have an "interesting" problem which is why I'm posting to the hackers@ list :) The situation is: an 8-STABLE amd64 system from a few months ago running on VMWare ESXi 5, which worked fine until today. Today, it looks like anything which "sleeps" for whatever reasons (including select(2)) simply

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread 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 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 >

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Aleksandr Rybalko
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:20:56 +0100 Lars Engels wrote: [cut] >> >> 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. :) Hi Lars,

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-04 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Arnaud. You wrote 4 ноября 2011 г., 6:30:18: > $89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect > being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :) What is so special about A8? We have some ARM code in tree, is Cortex SO different from previous architectures? As far