Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:01:03 -0600 From: David Witten <wittend@wwrinc.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: ARM5 (?) - PXA255 Message-ID: <43D0607F.3000404@wwrinc.com>
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For what it is worth, I would really like to be able to run FreeBSD on the Gumstix boards. In case someone's not familiar with them, they are PXA255 boards (at present) with 6 or 16 MB flash, 64Mb SRAM, a MMC Flash card socket, USB, I2C, SPI, and UARTS. Very inexpensive add-ons for robotics, WiFi, ethernet and other good stuff are available as well. Essentially a 200 or 400MHz PDA on an 20mm x 80 mm board (like a stick of gum). The least expensive board is < $100 US. Boards based on a more recent Intel PDA processors are reportedly due this spring, but the PXA255 is a well established processor. These come with Linux, but much of my other work is with BSD, and I would really prefer to stick with one OS. I have several of these things and they are fun, but I always have a nagging feeling that I am diluting my efforts by diddling with the Linux drivers when my real interest is in BSD. I would also really like to have an ARM7 port, probably something that could run on the Olimex LPC-H2294 board ($99 US) that has 16k + 1Mb SRAM and 256k + 4Mb Flash. Is either of these projects feasible, and is there anyone out there who has done work in either of these directions?
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