[nycbug-talk] Fwd: ARM Architecture Reference Manual availability

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

On September 11, 2013 10:17:15 AM EDT, Brian Callahan 
<bcallah at devio.us> wrote:

> On 9/11/2013 9:51 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
>> This is from the FBSD ARM list.. .may be of interest to some people on
>> this list.
>>
>> g
>
> Hot on the heels of this announcement, here's how Linus feels about 
> ARM SoC developers:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/11/torvalds_suggests_poison_and_sabotage_for_arm_soc_designers/
>
> (totally no bias from me...)
>

Well, I guess that opens the door wide for more businesses to adopt 
*BSD on ARM, as the "internet of things" becomes more of a thing.

With that, sorry to shift the conversation sideways, but I see a few 
big-picture roadblocks:

- General USB support for various ARM hardwares.  Sore spot, I know- 
but it's a pretty serious blocker for *BSD to take off in the emerging 
maker/builder/application ARM community.

- General *solid* Ethernet support for various ARM hardwares.  It's 
simply no good to deploy, and have the nic jam up.

I know these are problems because of cost- inexpensive hw is not 
quality, as well as being a moving target.  (My comments come after my 
*very light* tinkering with FreeBSD and OpenBSD on arm- and years and 
years of soekris/pcengines fun...)

--
What can non OS-developers (like myself) do to help these two issues along?

Best,
.ike



>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: ARM Architecture Reference Manual availability
>> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:25:06 +0100
>> From: Andrew Wafaa <Andrew.Wafaa at arm.com>
>> To: arm at freebsd.org <arm at freebsd.org>
>>
>> To all those interested,
>>
>> ARM have finally published the reference manual for ARMv8 \o/ You can
>> grab a copy [0] now, you will need to accept the EULA first.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> 0 -
>> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0487a/index.html
>>
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