PiDP-8/I Software

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Ticket Hash: 856225858e960ea24dfa14cb5d19051bc9d417d1
Title: Port to FreeBSD
Status: Verified Type: Feature Request
Severity: Minor Priority: Low
Subsystem: host integration Resolution: Open
Last Modified: 2017-02-03 14:09:56
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tangent added on 2017-01-09 04:46:05:

There is a FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi distribution. It might be an even better stylistic match to the PDP-8 emulation we're doing here than Raspbian Lite.

I do not suggest moving the binary OS images to it — at least, not without trying it first — but it would be nice to see it run that way.

tangent added on 2017-01-09 21:54:54:

Some more thinking on this brings up several things that are likely to need adjustment:

  • Does /dev/gpiomem exist, and does adding the user to group gpio give access to it?
  • Does setcap exist, and does our call to it allow the installed program to raise its thread priority?
  • All the systemctl commands will have to be replaced with direct calls to /opt/pidp8i/etc/rc.pidp8i
  • What does it take to integrate the script into the /etc/rc.conf or /usr/local/etc/rc.conf system so we can say pidp8i_enable=YES to get it to boot on startup?