FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ?

[Mm Bsd]

The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant
of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it.

Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that
mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ?

Without getting into the specifics of loading the system
(and using a touchscreen as input), would plain old amd64
FreeBSD run on this device ?
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[Robert Bonomi]

> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:31:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mm Bsd <mmbs...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ?
> To: freebsd-...@freebsd.org

>
>
> The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant
> of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it.
>
> Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that
> mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ?
>
> Without getting into the specifics of loading the system
> (and using a touchscreen as input), would plain old amd64
> FreeBSD run on this device ?

Not without a lot of low level work. like _all_ the device
drivers, interrupt handlers, etc.

[Joshua Isom]

You would need a bootloader, since I doubt it uses UEFI an I'm not sure.
None of the drivers are probably supported, so you'll probably need to
write device drivers, everything from graphics to storage. By the time
you're done and have something workable, it will be so out of date it
will be a relic. Linux already supports a lot, and for embedded,
because of Android, the chipset makers have to have working linux
drivers to sell chips. Including getting the datasheets, it's outside
the scope of an independent developer. Now if you're Google and you
want to get rid of every vestige of GPL out of Android, it'll be ready
to ship by the end of the year, on ARM and amd64.