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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:13:44 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        "Fedorov, Alexander" <alexander.fedorov@rtlservice.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>,  Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P
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On 11 February 2016 at 13:36, Fedorov, Alexander
<alexander.fedorov@rtlservice.com> wrote:
> 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

Hopefully those can go into -HEAD next week.. :)



-adrian

>
>
>
> 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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