From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 04:02:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57B916A41F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:02:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wittend@wwrinc.com) Received: from tranq1.tranquility.net (tranq1.tranquility.net [206.156.230.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E3143D45 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:02:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wittend@wwrinc.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (oblivion.wwrinc.com [206.152.116.84] (may be forged)) by tranq1.tranquility.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0K42ohB052921 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:02:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wittend@wwrinc.com) Message-ID: <43D0607F.3000404@wwrinc.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:01:03 -0600 From: David Witten User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ARM5 (?) - PXA255 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:02:58 -0000 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?