Re: Arm64 Tier 1 FreeBSD 13 Phones

On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 04:07 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> FreeBSD Phones...
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5
> NXP i.MX 8M Quad core Cortex-A53, 64bit ARM
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone
> Allwinner A64 ARM Quad core Cortex-A53
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32-QOrI4cw
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKMxzz9cjs
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVJo9faE1fM
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV0RnWorPpQ
> 
> Happy hacking :)
> 

Dream on.  FreeBSD lacks the power-management infrastructure to run on
battery-operated devices.  The amount of work required to get there
from here is almost unimaginable, and there are no big companies
funding that kind of work (which is how linux got all that code).

-- Ian