Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:59:50 +0100 From: Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl> To: FreeBSD-PPC@FreeBSD.org Cc: FreeBSD-Embedded@FreeBSD.org Subject: PowerPC embedded board? Message-ID: <200901191259.50518.Daan@vehosting.nl>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi all, For a new product I am looking for an embedded powerpc board. For the project we need the following : o A board that can (in the near future) boot FreeBSD. o Support for hardware floating point arithmetic. o The board should have some form of bus / IO to connect custom-made peripheral(s) to. Searching the internet I've already stumbled upon the Efika [1] and SAM440 [2] boards, which both look promising, but as far as my Google-skills go, it looks like both boards need more work to get FreeBSD fully functional on them. I'm thinking of buying a couple of boards and helping an interested developer by either setting up a compile & test environment that is accessible over ssh, or donating an entire board (or both :) So I've got some questions : o Are there more interresting boards I could/should consider? (Or even boards that can already run FreeBSD?) o What board is most likely to grow FreeBSD support in the near future? o What parts are currently missing to get these boards up and running? 1: http://www.efika.de/index_en.html , http://www.directron.com/efikakit1.html 2: http://sam440.com/eng/sam440ep-flex.html Kind regards, -- Daan Vreeken VEHosting http://VEHosting.nl tel: +31-(0)40-7113050 / +31-(0)6-46210825 KvK nr: 17174380
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200901191259.50518.Daan>