On Apr 22, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > It's not easy even if you make appliances and sell a good number of their > NICs. At a company where I worked a few years ago, we had a performance > problem and it took us months to get any datasheets. When that didn't help, > it took us about the same amount of time to get errata. > > It is not fun.
I'm assuming the proprietary stuff that is the hurdle here is a ROM based boot sequence (and language). I would think that the ARM processor architecture is standard. If so about the ROM, is the general public completely in the dark about it? -jeff > > So, a month has gone by and a slice of raspberry pi is looking more and > > more tempting these days, especially since "official" delivery seems to > > have happened last week. Has anyone yet chanced an introduction of one > > to plan9? I would guess the initial booting would be the biggest > > hurdle. > > Not to stop anyone, but I hear getting documentation from Broadcom is a > bit of a painful project all in itself. > >
