short answer: no. Long answer: still no. Too many types of hardware, too little documentation, too much churn (i.e., by the time a machine was "done", new hw wouldn't be available for purchase), most hw has a finite life (i.e., embedded batteries -- once those fail, your machine is mostly worthless), etc., etc., ...
IMPOSSIBLE? No. I just can't see this as something that someone is going to spend a lot of time on. Feel free to prove us wrong, write code, make it work, submit it. But yes, I know what you are saying. In 1981, I spent a lot of time trying to optimize a 33 byte program to 32 bytes so I could fit it in an on-board ROM on my Quest Super Elf. I've been terrified to go back to that program and look to see how my codes skills now compare to when I was 15 years old. (Hmmm....not at all what you are after, but maybe someone could write an armv7 emulator in the Android OS so you could run an off-the-shelf release of OpenBSD in as a VM in Android? I can't decide if that could be in the slightest bit useful or not) Nick. On 02/15/15 12:46, Alan Corey wrote: > I'm not talking full control of all functions, I just mean putting an > image into an sdcard partition and being able to boot it from Android > and use it. Hopefully be able to build at least some ports on it. > > OK, I'm new here. I've had a Raspberry Pi for maybe 2 years, run > Debian on it but I've played with FreeBSD on there. I've been running > OpenBSD on i386 machines since about 2001. > > A few weeks ago I got an Android phone (my first), added a 64 gig > sdcard, installed Debian. Frankly between Android and Debian I'm > getting sick of the bloatware. 20 years ago I was plinking around > teaching myself i386 assembly language and writing programs that were > under 100 bytes. Android Studio is almost a 1 gig download and they > recommend 4 gigs of RAM to run it. > > This Debian doesn't even have direct access to the hardware, you > communicate with it by ssh and vnc. Can there be X video drivers, a > way to attach gpsd to the GPS hardware, use the Android keyboard, > connect to the WiFi, bluetooth, USB, camera, and sensors? I'm not > sure what I want but I feel like I don't have access to the hardware I > own. An OpenBSD dmesg would be a good start. > > Alan Corey >
