Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:42:49 +0100 From: Kris <krisb@interia.eu> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: werner@thieprojects.ch, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P Message-ID: <56BCD629.3040209@interia.eu> In-Reply-To: <20160211104534.5c18d1d32b3b55fdc458f6a5@bidouilliste.com> References: <56BBD0B0.7040407@thieprojects.ch> <56BBD6B9.3090703@interia.eu> <20160211104534.5c18d1d32b3b55fdc458f6a5@bidouilliste.com>
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Yep, that's what I meant. As long as we distinguish Allwinner naming convention from what is inside we shall be fine (although Allwinner tries hard to confuse people... as if ARM had not done enough :) ) That being said I think support for Allwinner chips is worth being continued. They are cheap, quite robust, quite popular, and documentation is reasonably available (credits go to sunxi I must admit) So enough talking, time to go down to basement, disconnect my old Olimex-A10-Lime and try to put FreeBSD on it. I do expect troubles as I am not convinced it will work out of the box (e.g. it is A10 but I can see there is A20_cpu_cfg (dual core) among files.allwinner, which does not sound right to me...). However I also see that some good soul put more sources in compare to 10.2 tree. On 02/11/16 10:45, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > The R here does not stand for the RealTime profile from ARM, it's just one Allwinner chip line. > > The R8 is basically an A13 which is basically an A10 which FreeBSD support, so it should be easy to port FreeBSD on the R8. > > On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:32:57 +0100 > Kris <krisb@interia.eu> wrote: > >> Hi Werner, >> Basically there is interest (I am waiting for x2 CHIP boards, they are >> due in March, but I think they will be slightly delayed). >> Before I get boards the only reasonable thing for me to do is to get as >> much out of existing tree to see how it can be ported, but no actual work. >> >> Please be careful - there is no such a thing like Cortex A13. A13 is >> just a marketing name Allwinner gave to their product. And I believe >> CHIP put Allwinner R8 on their board (normally in ARM nomenclature, >> R=for deeply embedded devices, A=for applications, but again, it is >> Allwinner so you can expect anything from their naming convention). >> However R8 is indeed equipped with Cortex A8 core, for which I believe >> some work has been done - see Allwinner A20 in repo - it has the same >> core if my memory serves right (it is even pin compatible with single >> core Allwinner A10 -> again Cortex A8 :) >> >> Kris >> >> On 02/11/16 01:07, Werner Thie wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> is there any interest or work going on making FreeBSD available on the >>> $9 CHIP from nextthing.co? >>> >>> Basically it's a Cortex A13, 1GHz ARM V7A with 512MB RAM, NAND flash >>> and a slew of peripherals, the datasheet can be found on >>> >>> https://linux-sunxi.org/images/e/eb/A13_Datasheet.pdf >>> >>> Werner >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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