> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:08:24PM +0200, Johan Ryberg wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> I wounder if it's any idea to donate a Raspberry Pi to a developer to > >> make it work on OpenBSD? As understood it is the hardware spec to > >> closed give it a chance but I rather ask then not.
If there's somebody with the skills time and interest to do this, I think they will probably be resourceful enough to get hold of the £25 board without too much trouble. As was said on port-arm@netbsd (who have rpi booting multiuser, but with very limited device support) "if you were in a position to convince hardware manufacturers to give access to components' manuals, your help would be very valuable indeed. :)" Really the panda and beagle devices are more interesting targets developer-wise (more docs, faster cpu, and supporting significantly more RAM; 512 is a lot more comfortable than 224 if you want to run standard applications on it) and for any kind of general improvement in ARM support (compiler, toolchain etc) which affects all arm devices, they would be the ones to get working well first as it's much easier to do this work on a machine which builds more quickly (also there's definitely a need for something nicer than the Thecus for package building).
