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Date:      Wed, 26 May 2004 01:22:47 +0200
From:      Olivier Houchard <cognet@ci0.org>
To:        Morton Lin <mtlin1@ms36.hinet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I want to buy an ARM dev. board
Message-ID:  <20040525232247.GB12360@ci0.org>
In-Reply-To: <002f01c44279$799c50e0$c50a27ca@p3bf>
References:  <003301c4420c$3391f220$4455608c@11091019701> <20040525124438.GA9632@ci0.org> <002f01c44279$799c50e0$c50a27ca@p3bf>

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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:57:58AM +0800, Morton Lin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm afraid I have no idea on how to get such a board.
> > I just wanted to clarify one point : I have nothing against !strongarm
> !xscale
> > ARM cpu support. I myself have a skeleton s3c2410 (arm920T) support in my
> > sourcetree, though I'm not sure I'll ever finish it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Olivier
> >
> 
> Humm, you did a great job for FreeBSD community ! BTW, ARM920T did have MMU.
> At least, we know the main target for FreeBSD/ARM development.  :-)
> 
> Oh, I forgot to mention it in last mail. There was another good choice for
> Intel XScale
> development platform, the Coyote Gateway Reference Design :
> http://www.adiengineering.com/productsCoyote.html
> It had lovely, richly features for FreeBSD/ARM development.
> 
> 

It sounds indeed lovely, and would be a nice target for FreeBSD/arm, but it
sounds expensive too :-)
I may (or I may not) get a XScale i80321 board, which would be a more than
decent platform to start hacking on real hardware.

Cheers,

Olivier


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