Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:49:39 -0700 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Oskar Holmlund <oskar.holmlund@yahoo.com>, freebsd-arm <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: <CABx9NuQrTw6OZSeyu2qHOoSmePqgE%2B2iYb_8WRZPOXdt3STpRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190717034937.GA1700@lonesome.com> References: <8352f841-0522-9f45-148d-d2948e97857e@gmail.com> <20190713152404.GJ1503@dendrobates> <b6876ce7-5147-5f1a-d712-3515e124cd36@gmail.com> <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> <20190717034937.GA1700@lonesome.com>
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 8:49 PM Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > 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. > Might this be a worthy cause for the FreeBSD foundation to pick up? I could see a number of advantages to a proper database driven page that lists full support information. It may also spur people or companies to invest a little time in driver support if there was a clear picture of what is involved in supporting a platform. It also seems to me that keeping an Arm driver support list up to date would require a regular investment. If there was a resource (person/persons) assigned to the task it would simply be a matter of contacting the resource when support changes. Just a thought, Russ > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > 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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