Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:15:59 -0400 From: <sr@jsreedinc.com> To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Came across some new boards Message-ID: <db3b9720f379d45851af2f236ddc870b@jsreedinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20071018081631.GV39759@funkthat.com> References: <20071018081631.GV39759@funkthat.com>
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> Warner Losh wrote this message on Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 21:22 -0600: >> In message: <a0cbc9ea672b83081f2d3a0f58cad94b@jsreedinc.com> >> <sr@jsreedinc.com> writes: >> : http://www.glomationinc.com/products.html look like some decent boards > for >> : the price. I'm going to order one for the hell of it and see what I > can do. >> >> Which one? One of the Cirrus Logic ones, or the Samsung one? The >> cirrus logic ones likely would be easy. Yeah, particularly this one http://www.glomationinc.com/product_9302E.html since it seems awfully cheap but, I believe most on that page are cirrus logic ARM. "Starting at $65" to me says thats for quantity one, unless they only sell them in quantity 100 without any sampling. >> >> : Also, >> : http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts7400-spec-s.htm >> : I noticed at the bottom it says they support netbsd, could code be > ported >> : from netbsd to FreeBSD? >> >> Yes. There's a ts7200 port in p4 now. There's some issues with the >> cpld and the ethernet last time I checked. It's likely a little > > Yeh... I never got around to finding out why ethernet did not work > reliably... And no one from EmbeddedArm or Cirrus Logic was interested > in helping me out... Having the ethernet port drop only some packets > (but not the ones to make nfs root unusable) made it anoying... Even > though I was using the ported NetBSD driver, they simply said: works > on NetBSD tough luck... > >> bitrotted now, but could be resurrected fairly easily. What's really >> needed is someone to do the leg work. > > Or some decent support to figure out why ethernet doesn't work... If > you don't need ethernet working, then just updating the drivers to the > new io bus shouldn't be hard, and gets most things working.. Ethernet is a pretty big deal in my situation. I assume with any TCP protocol it will retransmit until it is sent? I had a brand new system running amd64 a few years ago and the NIC would drop a few packets then watchdog timeout and the system would have to be rebooted, that was no good. I have email Jesse at embeddedARM/technologic with some general questions on supporting FreeBSD, have yet to hear back from him though. Thanks. Shelby Reed
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