From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 11 23:32:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38DCA747 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:32:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from meschoyez@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22b.google.com (mail-ie0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BE022068 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id 16so9673229iea.16 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:32:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=SpMIy/5rV0Wp+VgJn++QQ0cUsBdGq4oopNFqjiiRJoQ=; b=B/piREQP9yyq4o09vwlxi3EYInmbRZtqMoYQaFA8P7UJOjCGaUvcvds6NYCG0EOKBY wNk4fmSrAHtZVI+3NWBdhxW19O4WpfTm+K1S9E192b61bj915wEmfgl/ONT7ttMQmxLY fjn7UUEV29xO/AaSux85veFplUCwKBxgWx7U/ZuPTsnGgSawYtOnXL99P+9u/Gz3HkPv EePhshGeAiNXl3NBVEpohaynh2UkmScPSF8omVwPO9MD3+Ry23KjE7giO1NuOx7fWk6C B4nKzjspc4iw1P6HiBeMKK2wc2iQNDbQKT/h4W3Gb22LZ4NuLbNIf1e3unWaV2EryYFQ IneQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.124.10 with SMTP id me10mr1075505igb.40.1378942322517; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.76.169 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:32:02 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Development contribution for Allwinner Family (our first step) From: Maximiliano Eschoyez To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Marcelo cebollada y verdaguer X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:32:03 -0000 Dear all: We are a recently born working group at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, F=EDsicas y Naturales (http://www.efn.uncor.edu/), Universidad Nacional de C=F3rdoba (http://www.unc.edu.ar/) interested in technologies for education= , from server configuration/administration to embedded systems. Marcelo Cebollada and me are the leaders of the group and we are leading students professional practices and final career projects. My first FreeBSD installation was 2.2.6 (1998), when I was a student. Today, we have several servers with different BSD flavors serving different services for the University. Our largest service over FreeBSD is a Moodle Installation (http://lev.efn.uncor.edu/). In the next weeks we will start working to have a FreeBSD mirror in one of our new servers. We started our embedded tour with the Mele A1000 (Allwinner A10). You have also seen mail from our students that were working with it (Mariano Lescano, Jos=E9 Ribodino and Manuel Ferreiro). They succeed embedding FreeB= SD upon all driver limitations. Also, they could run FreeBSD on a Cubieboard in a similar way as Crochet does. Now, they are working on a tutorial. Of course, we want to contribute our experience. Now, we have a Raspberry Pi, two Cubieboard 1 and two small systems ( http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/231118984.html). We are waiting the arriving of a Cubieboard 2 and some QT960-A2 ( http://www.aliexpress.com/item/TV-BOX-QT960-A2-Android-Set-Top-TV-BOX-1GB-R= AM-4GB-ROM-HDMI-Allwinner-A20/1184857989.html ). Two other students are starting they professional practice in driver development. They will focus on Cubieboard 1 and 2, especifically in SD, NAND flash and Ethernet drivers. We want to know the status of Cubieboard drivers. Is anyone working on it? Do you have some suggestions about how to start? So, all your help would be very appreciated. We hope we can contribute to the FreeBSD Project. --=20 Saludos cordiales, Maximiliano Eschoyez