[OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

[Jacob Ritorto]

Meh, FreeBSD on BeagleBoard is in its infancy I guess.  No code released 
yet..   http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-bgb/




On 02/08/11 08:56, Deano wrote:
> Whilst many of us would love to see an ARM port of OI and illumos, it's not
> even on the cards yet.
> OI is more oriented to bigger systems and there is a considerable amount of
> effort to slim it down and port it to ARM.
>
> Have you considered a mini-itx or pico-itx board? They would likely run OI
> (assuming drivers etc.).
>
> If you do go with the beagleboard, I suggest a embedded focused distribution
> of linux than Ubuntu, just like OI its not really designed for the small end
> of the spectrum and there are some very nice embedded distros.
> Another possibility is FreeBSD on arm, FreeBSD zfs support is quite ahead of
> linux, so would probably make a better base and its also got some nice mini
> distro's ready to go :)
>
> HTH,
> Deano
> deano at cloudpixies.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Ritorto [mailto:jacob.ritorto at gmail.com]
> Sent: 08 February 2011 13:45
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?
>
> Hi,
>           I was thinking of building a minimal low
> performance/experimental zfs filer on a beagleboard (
> http://beagleboard.org ) or something similar with a 2tb mirror disk set
> attached via usb and a serial console.  Are there any projects or plans
> to compile/port OpenIndiana to arm?  If not, I see that Ubuntu already
> works on beagleboard, so that, plus the Livermore zfs-on-linux port (
> http://zfsonlinux.org ) would perhaps do the trick for now, I guess..
>
> thoughts?
>
> thx
> jake
>
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