Nick Holland [n...@holland-consulting.net] wrote: > > The problem with ARM is there is no ARM reference platform. > Every machine is significantly different than every other machine, > technical details of how it is built are not published (why should they > be? They aren't being sold as general purpose computers). > > I do not get the excitement over ARM. Sorry. Its "design" complete and > total chaos at this point.
There is maybe one sort-of exception to this mess: The openly documented Freescale iMX6 platform. http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX6Q&nodeId=018rH3ZrDRB24A&fpsp=1&tab=Documentation_Tab It could stay around for a while. There is an open "laptop" design built around it that looks like fun: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 And a certain Dale Rahn even wrote support for iMX6 in a source tree that could "drop in" to OpenBSD... If someone really wants to play with newer ARM stuff on OpenBSD, try to find some iMX6 hardware, and start with Dale's improved sys/arch/arm, sys/arch/imx and sys/arch/beagle Chris
