PayPal pool for developer M1 Mac mini for OpenBSD port

Greetings, all!

Patrick Wildt has set up a PayPal pool to raise funds to purchase an M1 =
Mac mini so he can start porting OpenBSD to the platform. If you=E2=80=99d=
 like to be able to run OpenBSD on an M1 system, now would be a great =
time to throw some pennies his way.

The donation link: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8uPSkfNJMp

Read below for an idea of what one might expect if we can get a machine =
into Patrick=E2=80=99s hands.

Cheers,

b&

Patrick wrote:

> Yes, kettenis@ and me are the two ones doing the major work on porting
> to new devices.  Not sure if kettenis@ is interested, but I can ask =
him.
> I definitely am, a Mac Mini as a dedicated machine to do stuff with =
and
> not care about what is installed would really help.
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> Marcan has started a crowdfunding on Patreon.  He's a really capable
> person, and he'll definitely lay a lot of groundwork needed for =
porting
> OpenBSD to the platform.  He apparenetly will also do his work in a
> dual-licensed fashion, so the BSDs will easily profit from it.
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> So, the first steps are basically to follow Marcan's work and use all
> that information and code to port OpenBSD as well.
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> This *will* take some time, because essentially there are only the
> binary drivers, but it's doable and I think with a bit of patience
> we will have OpenBSD running on the M1 as well.
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> Biggest hurdle, as always, will be support for graphics acceleration.