From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 00:10:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA59816A4EB for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:10:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dong.ci0.org (cognet.ci0.org [80.65.224.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAAE43D1D for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:10:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mlfbsd@dong.ci0.org) Received: from dong.ci0.org (localhost.ci0.org [127.0.0.1]) by dong.ci0.org (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAC11jBx039033; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:01:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mlfbsd@dong.ci0.org) Received: (from mlfbsd@localhost) by dong.ci0.org (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id iAC11jar039032; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:01:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mlfbsd) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:01:44 +0100 From: Olivier Houchard To: "Devon H. O'Dell" Message-ID: <20041112010144.GA36319@ci0.org> References: <41939C6D.5010400@sitetronics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41939C6D.5010400@sitetronics.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current status and further development X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:10:48 -0000 On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:07:57PM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Hey List, > > I'm going to be getting an ARM machine (Siemens SIMpad) soon, and I > really don't want to run Linux on it. What's the current status of > development, who are the head honchos, and what can I do to help out (do > we have a TODO anywhere)? > > --Devon Hi, If I'm not mistaken, the Siemens SIMpad is based on the StrongArm 1110. If so, basic support is present in the tree, and I get it to single user (multi-user shouldn't be hard to achieve, but I have no real SA1110 hardware, I'm using Simics, which doesn't emulate enough to be really interesting at this point.) The only things which have drivers for are the UART and the clock, so if you want to get FreeBSD to run on a SIMpad, you'd need a bunch of drivers (some of them can easily be adapted from NetBSD). Assuming you want to run it from Windows CE, you'd need a loader too. I guess NetBSD's hpcarm loader should work fine. You can get a few infos on how to cross compiles things for FreeBSD/arm here : http://people.FreeBSD.org/~cognet/freebsd_arm.txt It is a quick text explaining how to setup freebsd on the intel IQ31244 board, but most of it applies here as well. There's no TODO list yet, that would depress me ;) Feel free to ask for more. Cheers, Olivier