NetBSD Ported To Run On NVIDIA's Jetson TK1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBSD Ported To Run On NVIDIA's Jetson TK1

The latest ARM platform that NetBSD has been ported to is the NVIDIA Jetson TK1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBSD-Jetson-TK1

[endman]

Jetson TK1 already caomes preloaded with the Linux distro Linux4Tegra (http://elinux.org/Jetson_TK1). So there's nothing special about NetBSD running on this. Linux beat them to it long along. Nothing to see here. Move on.

[My8th]

Plenty to see here, keep up with the OS news Michael.

[DanL]

Jetson TK1 already caomes preloaded with the Linux distro Linux4Tegra (http://elinux.org/Jetson_TK1). So there's nothing special about NetBSD running on this. Linux beat them to it long along. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Die, troll, die!

[danieru]

Great, this is the first requirement to have Minix 3 running on it.

[nasyt]

A 9front port would be great.

[nasyt]

Jetson TK1 already caomes preloaded with the Linux distro Linux4Tegra (http://elinux.org/Jetson_TK1).

Linux4Tegra is a distro made by the Jetson TK1 vendors/manufacturers themself, much like Raspian for Raspberry PI.

So there's nothing special about NetBSD running on this.

Ha, unlike Linux4Tegra, NetBSD was not by the Jetson TK1 vendors/manufacturers themself.

Linux beat them to it long along.

Thats why i prefer 9front.

[endman]

Ha, unlike Linux4Tegra, NetBSD was not by the Jetson TK1 vendors/manufacturers themself.

The Linux kernel was still ported over to make Linux4Tegra exists. That's not different from NetBSD porting their piece of shit OS 15 years later.

Thats why i prefer 9front.

plan9 is a failure and that's why it never got into mass adoption. plan9 was an enhancement of an obsolete religion called the UNIX philososphy which prevents the creation of OSes and applications that are usable in today's requirements. That's why Linux left it fair with the creation of systemd. Get real! pretty much everything embedded will be Linux because it's only suitable and sane solution.

[nasyt]

plan9 is a failure and that's why it never got into mass adoption. plan9 was an enhancement of an obsolete religion called the UNIX philososphy which prevents the creation of OSes and applications that are usable in today's requirements. That's why Linux left it fair with the creation of systemd.

Aside countless RTOS, plan9 is one of those operating systems, that are Lightweight enough for embedded applications.

As of systemd: systemd is one of those things that make linux unsuitable for embedded, because systemd is anything but lightweight. Systemd may be suited for desktop PCs or Laptops, where i have a reset button i can press, if systemd hangs up the system.

Get real! pretty much everything embedded will be Linux because it's only suitable and sane solution.

Absolutely wrong, aside bare-metal applications (those without kernel or OS), there are many real-time operating systems and microkernels around. The most secure Handy uses an L4 microkernel. There are also Microcontrollers, Linux cant run on, 8- and 16 bit for example.

[SystemCrasher]

Linux4Tegra is a distro made by the Jetson TK1 vendors/manufacturers themself, much like Raspian for Raspberry PI.

You're right: Raspberry Pi sucks in terms of mainline support. Common distros do not provide packages for ARMv6 either. So, one have to rely on couple of half-borked distros from strange persons, who obviously lack resources to compile and maintain all 45 000 packages real debian got these days. Needless to say, it dooms Pi owners to severily restrict use cases and gives them fancy source of headaches. That's what you get if you value marketing bullshit over sanity.

Actually, Pi is all about good marketing. Yet it's awful engineering. Poor upstreams cooperation is also hallmark of Pi. But it's Broadcom, so it have to be expected. Broadcom always has been like this. Yet it's EPIC WIN for broadcom sales - they got rid of outdated/uncompetitive scrap ICs and even managed to sold them. Epic win of sales dep't, who actually managed to negate epic fail of engineering dep't.

So what one gets with Pi? Poor mainline integration, closed hardware, closed-source BLOBs in boot sequence, as well as FAT32 which is impossible to get rid of - that's all so exciting about Pi . And it's damn pointless either: many other ARMs are booting perfectly using opensource u-boot, with no any single byte of BLOBs, using, say, EXT4 or whatever - no patented and silly FAT32 crap. There are open hardware designs with much better design of, say, board power supply/manageme part, light years ahead of what Pi haves. And much more affordable SoCs one can be buy on open markets at will, even in relatively small quantities. So the fact Pi crap sells is marketing achievement.

Ha, unlike Linux4Tegra, NetBSD was not by the Jetson TK1 vendors/manufacturers themself.

Would it mean it's yet another unusable port, barely starting up CPU core and spitting bootlog garbage to UART? BSDs were even unable to port nouveau from Linux at desktop systems. Even less likely to port it to relatively unpopular ARM. And if one does not needs more or less desktop-like GPU, other than that Tegra is just horribly expensive and therefore unpopular SoC, which makes no real sense for any other uses.

Thats why i prefer 9front.

Ahh, these academic guys... they always make cool things. And these things happen to be totally useless in real world. I suspect some of them are aliens or visitors from other dimension, so they fail very hard in our world in really fancy ways