Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:38:18 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Kris <krisb@interia.eu> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P Message-ID: <6b8f30ec50bc857e9edc180e6bb0a4aa@megadrive.org> In-Reply-To: <56BCD629.3040209@interia.eu> References: <56BBD0B0.7040407@thieprojects.ch> <56BBD6B9.3090703@interia.eu> <20160211104534.5c18d1d32b3b55fdc458f6a5@bidouilliste.com> <56BCD629.3040209@interia.eu>
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Olinuxino-a10-lime works out of the box with -HEAD, this is the board I use almost everyday to work on A10. On 2016-02-11 19:42, Kris wrote: > 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" >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Emmanuel Vadot
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