From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 15:08:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9C016A420 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:08:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sr@jsreedinc.com) Received: from mail.jsreedinc.com (jsreedinc.com [72.232.30.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FA5F13C491 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:08:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sr@jsreedinc.com) Received: (qmail 46995 invoked by uid 1015); 18 Oct 2007 15:16:00 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by jsreedinc.com (envelope-from , uid 1011) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88.1/1416. spamassassin: 3.1.1. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.135235 secs); 18 Oct 2007 15:16:00 -0000 X-Antivirus-JSREEDINC.COM-Mail-From: sr@jsreedinc.com via jsreedinc.com X-Antivirus-JSREEDINC.COM: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.135235 secs Process 46988) Received: from localhost (HELO mail.jsreedinc.com) (127.0.0.1) by mail.jsreedinc.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2007 15:15:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:15:59 -0400 From: To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071018081631.GV39759@funkthat.com> References: <20071018081631.GV39759@funkthat.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: sr@jsreedinc.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Came across some new boards X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:08:44 -0000 > Warner Losh wrote this message on Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 21:22 -0600: >> In message: >> 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