Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:57:49 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Maximiliano Eschoyez <meschoyez@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Marcelo cebollada y verdaguer <mcebollada@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Development contribution for Allwinner Family (our first step) Message-ID: <C6DA72F7-83D4-432F-A2BD-DD94AD3E9A19@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOJsmR%2Bqbp-TGth0OXA6DEgab0zam1U0mg5rwqFsovqGOkPmKA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 11, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Maximiliano Eschoyez wrote: > Dear all: > > We are a recently born working group at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, > Físicas y Naturales (http://www.efn.uncor.edu/), Universidad Nacional de > Córdoba (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. Fun... > 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, José Ribodino and Manuel Ferreiro). They succeed embedding FreeBSD > 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. We'd love to see that... > 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-RAM-4GB-ROM-HDMI-Allwinner-A20/1184857989.html > ). The A20 is newer than the A10 that I have... I've had my Cubieboard put away for a bit, maybe I should get it out... > 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. Way cool! > 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. My Cubieboard can boot on a USB thumb drive. We don't have good drivers for the SD or NAND or NIC (maybe the latter is better now)... Warner > We hope we can contribute to the FreeBSD Project. > > -- > Saludos cordiales, > > Maximiliano Eschoyez > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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