From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Wed Jul 17 03:49:42 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F901A26A2 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:49:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [18.222.6.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.soaustin.net", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02B8C8B994; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from lonesome.com (unknown [18.188.142.31]) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9BAF21FCD4; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:49:38 +0000 From: Mark Linimon To: Oskar Holmlund Cc: Ian Lepore , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arm support documentation [was: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE images fail to boot on BeagleBone Black] Message-ID: <20190717034937.GA1700@lonesome.com> References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <6b3dcec02b425a8559605b4e6c5ada19ee642728.camel@freebsd.org> <20190713194256.GK1503@dendrobates> <85e35455-793a-84fe-c8cf-39b89ade7c11@gmail.com> <900bc3467c7e28f58e8e6cf17e881bdefcb3b751.camel@freebsd.org> <20190714174432.GC26897@lonesome.com> <20190716003350.GA19462@lonesome.com> <777187156.3093253.1563302076702@mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <777187156.3093253.1563302076702@mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 02B8C8B994 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.08 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.25)[ip: (0.03), ipnet: 18.220.0.0/14(0.14), asn: 16509(-1.34), country: US(-0.06)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[lonesome.com]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.05)[0.048,0]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.45)[0.451,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.86)[-0.863,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.20)[11.6.222.18.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.2]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail.soaustin.net]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[yahoo.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16509, ipnet:18.220.0.0/14, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:49:42 -0000 On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 06:34:36PM +0000, Oskar Holmlund wrote: > The professional users (Build custom boards based around a SoC and > custom FreeBSD images based probably on stable) are interested in which > SoC (bcm2837, AM335x, iMX6...), support for SPI (speed/mode), I2C, > UART (Yes still using UARTS), GPIO, ADC, PWM, SD/emmc/flash/... USB, > some are also interested in LCD (16, 24bit, resolution), Touch interface. > If drivers exists for the SoCs watchdog, RTC, DMA and so on. This is far more work than I can take on at this time. IMHO a complete table of the form I'm working on is a predicate for something like that. And, complete documentation probably needs to be in a database rather than in a text-based table. mcl