Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:43:29 -1000 From: Werner Thie <werner@thieprojects.ch> To: Kris <krisb@interia.eu>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P Message-ID: <56BBE741.4010708@thieprojects.ch> In-Reply-To: <56BBD6B9.3090703@interia.eu> References: <56BBD0B0.7040407@thieprojects.ch> <56BBD6B9.3090703@interia.eu>
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Hi Kris I have a board which did not boot when it arrived, but I was able to make it start up by going through their complete reflashing procedure. It's now running a headless version of Debian. Apparently a lot of chips have been sent out which did not boot at all, but with re-flashing it seems to be possible to navigate around the bad blocks issue on the NAND flash. I didn't look too deep into the re-flashing but it seemed to me quite a stable and re-doable action. So, basically it's looking at uboot, how the DTB would have to look like and then we would end up with a booting kernel and a few drivers missing, you seem to know more about that than I do. Werner On 2/10/16 2:32 PM, Kris 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" >
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