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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:36:51 +0300
From:      "Fedorov, Alexander" <alexander.fedorov@rtlservice.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>,  "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P
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It's seems, that many other things are not supported, what about:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5202
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5050
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5050
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4846



2016-02-11 21:04 GMT+03:00 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>:
> I have one of these too that I was handed a little bit ago. The initial
> issue that I saw
> was NAND support... Other than that, though, it didn't look terrible.
>
> Warner
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>  The R here does not stand for the RealTime profile from ARM, it's just
>> one Allwinner chip line.
>>
>>  The R8 is basically an A13 which is basically an A10 which FreeBSD
>> support, so it should be easy to port FreeBSD on the R8.
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:32:57 +0100
>> Kris <krisb@interia.eu> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Werner,
>> > Basically there is interest (I am waiting for x2 CHIP boards, they are
>> > due in March, but I think they will be slightly delayed).
>> > Before I get boards the only reasonable thing for me to do is to get as
>> > much out of existing tree to see how it can be ported, but no actual
>> work.
>> >
>> > Please be careful - there is no such a thing like Cortex A13. A13 is
>> > just a marketing name Allwinner gave to their product. And I believe
>> > CHIP put Allwinner R8 on their board (normally in ARM nomenclature,
>> > R=for deeply embedded devices, A=for applications, but again, it is
>> > Allwinner so you can expect anything from their naming convention).
>> > However R8 is indeed equipped with Cortex A8 core, for which I believe
>> > some work has been done - see Allwinner A20 in repo - it has the same
>> > core if my memory serves right (it is even pin compatible with single
>> > core Allwinner A10 -> again Cortex A8 :)
>> >
>> > Kris
>> >
>> > On 02/11/16 01:07, Werner Thie wrote:
>> > > Hi all
>> > >
>> > > is there any interest or work going on making FreeBSD available on the
>> > > $9 CHIP from nextthing.co?
>> > >
>> > > Basically it's a Cortex A13, 1GHz ARM V7A with 512MB RAM, NAND flash
>> > > and a slew of peripherals, the datasheet can be found on
>> > >
>> > > https://linux-sunxi.org/images/e/eb/A13_Datasheet.pdf
>> > >
>> > > Werner
>> > > _______________________________________________
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>> --
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