&os; on Freescale i.MX6 processors

From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 8 23:32:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@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 ESMTPS id 14193381; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA0931D95; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s08NWAtM022770; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:32:10 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s08NWAJw022768; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:32:10 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201401082332.s08NWAJw022768@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:32:10 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43450 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:32:11 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Wed Jan 8 23:32:10 2014 New Revision: 43450 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43450 Log: - Add 2013Q4 report on Freescale i.MX6 support Submitted by: ian Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 8 18:58:16 2014 (r43449) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 8 23:32:10 2014 (r43450) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 6 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 7 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between January and March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.

@@ -382,4 +382,54 @@ Add support for Berkeley DB 5 and higher to Orage. + + + &os; on Freescale i.MX6 processors + + + + + Ian + Lepore + + ian@freebsd.org + + + + + Announcement of Wanboard support + + + +

The i.MX range is a family of Freescale Semiconductor + proprietary microprocessors for multimedia applications based on + the ARM architecture and focused on low-power consumption. The + i.MX6x series is based on the ARM Cortex A9 solo, dual or quad + cores. Initial support for them has been committed to + head, and merged to stable/10. All members of + the i.MX6 family (Solo, Dual, and Quad core) are supported, but + SMP support on the multi-core SoCs has not yet been enabled.

+ +

Initial driver support includes:

+ +

USB (EHCI)
Ethernet (Gigabit)
SD Card
UART

+ +

The initial hardware bringup was done on Wandboard hardware, + see the announcement on freebsd-arm in the links section + for more information.

+ + + + Write drivers for additional on-chip hardware, including + I2C, SPI, AHCI, audio, and video. + + Add support to &os;-crochet script to generate Wandboard + images + +