Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:54:11 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: sr@jsreedinc.com Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Came across some new boards Message-ID: <20071018185411.GY39759@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <db3b9720f379d45851af2f236ddc870b@jsreedinc.com> References: <20071018081631.GV39759@funkthat.com> <db3b9720f379d45851af2f236ddc870b@jsreedinc.com>
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sr@jsreedinc.com wrote this message on Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:15 -0400: > > 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 Sadly no... Unless the retransmit is a different packet, but if it keeps retrying the same packet that was dropped, it will never send the packet... The dropping seems to be data related... > 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. Good luck... I didn't have any when trying to deal w/ them... You might have better luck talking w/ Glomation... It shouldn't be hard to bring it up on a different board... Already have the serial port driver working for the EP9302... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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