Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:32:20 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>, Klaus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? Message-ID: <9ee70ac3b117b6605ce67102c2864f24a2816d90.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <vzez0VkHT9Md7U5Nh06Nn6nKDC12DHThVAZh1obdLpsDtbrVYoHcBUXa8M-GKvIv30vxHwNCUbAPNyfi6fFaqksopDIO8hOlMPWVkduSe20=@a9development.com> References: <21BE83BC-0667-44F7-83E4-1664A2BC6017@icloud.com> <E4905B08-79AD-4B48-87A0-3E0EF3027C8B@googlemail.com> <cc9bc6a4-4012-8f66-2dd6-6b9e552438ea@spth.de> <74C08272-D40E-42D2-A623-CEE12C661329@googlemail.com> <f3hHexkIDGQX3sr0f3EOMvUZF0x6JsYpzHZ5bcGch0KxWF3MOakIenD2VfjnJG-JM8SAhlUhDCR_3wZalOKMBGvL4Acyhcl0iO8mdsJDUXs=@a9development.com> <8d54c77b-b5bf-cdc9-7ed5-2bfb6504b388@spth.de> <0434D7DE-14A6-4B78-97C4-508C348DB891@googlemail.com> <vzez0VkHT9Md7U5Nh06Nn6nKDC12DHThVAZh1obdLpsDtbrVYoHcBUXa8M-GKvIv30vxHwNCUbAPNyfi6fFaqksopDIO8hOlMPWVkduSe20=@a9development.com>
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On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 22:52 +0000, Dan Kotowski wrote: > > `guess SFP+ would need more special driver-attention ... > > from quick reading around the web I guess the DPAA2 also needs a > > closed source binary blob. > > So this actually comes from NXP, not SolidRun. Linux already has > some/most of what's needed, and the license is GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3- > Clause so there's hope, but I haven't heard a peep from NXP and > SolidRun doesn't really have the manpower to port to FreeBSD > themselves. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/ That's actually very good news. If it's dual-licensed it can be included in freebsd without any drama. Still needs porting work, or maybe it could run using the linuxkpi stuff? -- Ian
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