On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:10:57AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > 2010/7/24 sERGEJ bRONNIKOW <este...@gmail.com>: > > My idea is to make ports for such equipment. > > Lots of people have lots of really good ideas that don't get done > because no one is willing to spend time or money on them. Are you > willing to spend *your* time and *your* money on your idea? Because > if not, all of the OpenBSD developers have *plenty* of their own good > ideas to work on. > > If you're serious and not just talking, then have you read all the > pages in the OpenBSD website that describe how the various ports that > *do* exist came about...and about how those that are incomplete, > unmaintained, or dead came to be that way? Do you have a reason (and > not just an idealogy!) for why *this* port (to the unspecified > platform you have in your mind) will succeed where others have been > left behind? > > > If so, well, please send a patch for /usr/src/sys/arch/<whatever>, > plus three machines that can run it (one for builds, one for ports, > and one for some other developer to work with) to the project. If you > don't have code or machines than you're just talk. Come back when you > have one, the other, or both.
I've read his mail twice and I think what he wants is to create ports (as in ports tree) with hardware schematics/instructions/sources and maybe firmware files for small DIY uC projects. I would welcome such a thing, if the project is possible and achievable with OpenBSD. CAD/cross-compilers/etc would have to be available and usb/serial/jtag communication must work (no point of getting such a port into OpenBSD if only Linux has the specialised usb driver for flashing the hw) Of course talk is cheap, he should make a port we can look at first... Tobias > > > Philip Guenther
