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[50.78.194.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id kd1sm6859941pab.20.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Development contribution for Allwinner Family (our first step) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:57:49 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Maximiliano Eschoyez X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, 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: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:57:59 -0000 On Sep 11, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Maximiliano Eschoyez wrote: > Dear all: >=20 > 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. >=20 > Marcelo Cebollada and me are the leaders of the group and we are = leading > students professional practices and final career projects. >=20 > 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, Jos=E9 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. >=20 > --=20 > Saludos cordiales, >=20 > 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"