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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by rootbear on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:28PM (#8325332)
I expect a port to the Raspberry Pi will happen. The supported boards are all ARM v7, but the Pi is v6 and that is probably the reason it's not supported right out of the gate.
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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by wolfgke on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @01:30PM (#8325708)
Or the fact that you need a binary blob to boot an operating system on it.
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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by me2i81 on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @01:50PM (#8325862)
Or the fact that the board design is not open source, unlike the BeagleBone.
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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by wolfgke on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:18PM (#8326503)
What do you miss of in the board schematics?

> http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware#Schematic_.2F_Layout

> http://www.raspberrypi.org/model-b-revision-2-0-schematics/

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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by me2i81 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @07:11PM (#8338180)
The problem is the copyright: "Design (c) 2011, 2012 Raspberry Pi Foundation All Rights Reserved" As far as I know the schematics are not open-source, i.e. there's no right to use them other than as documentation for the (proprietary) Raspberry Pi-manufactured board. The BeagleBone, on the other hand, has an open-source license for their schematic under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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