Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 17:27:24 -0500 From: DJ Regan <regantechservicesinc@gmail.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current state of FreeBSD iMX6 porting efforts? Message-ID: <CA%2BZZYL5gR1eSHa1sPDtPHWaHKNPJysv9AC24Sdbkc2cbxOjabA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1491155096.37037.14.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CA%2BZZYL4Bk5j=_FgfNhfSg4=rWX6P_MS_LoDcurSBrPBUXtTG2g@mail.gmail.com> <1491155096.37037.14.camel@freebsd.org>
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Hi Ian, Understood sir. It happened to be the i.MX6UL (with ARM Cortex-A7, right?) was most curious about. For embedded projects that don't require video or audio... the Cortex-A7 may be all the power those embedded projects require. I saw the SPI driver in the list of unfinished drivers. I also didn't think it would be hard to port SPI from a working project over to the iMX6. :) Some i.MX6UL SOMs are being priced in the $24-ish (ex Variscite DART-6UL) range, so at those low prices - > you'd think there are a lot of good embedded application problems waiting to be solved with embedded FreeBSD. :) I'm new to FreeBSD - but, I'm excited to learn more and try to make myself useful to the community. Thanks sir... --DJ Regan On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 09:11 -0500, DJ Regan wrote: > > According to wiki page... > > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/imx6/ > > > > ...the last update of 'what works' vs 'what still needs to be done', > > was... > > > > FreeBSD/arm/imx6 (last edited 2015-02-02 01:54:07 by IanLepore > > <https://wiki.freebsd.org/IanLepore>) > > > > ...what is the current state of iMX6 development? > > > > And, where can I start to help? :) > > > > Thanks, > > --DJ Regan > > Sadly, the status now isn't all that different. I think audio and > video work now, including HDMI. Even though I have like a dozen imx6 > boards here, I've never tried audio or video. > > The imx6 things I'm most likely to focus on this year are driven by the > needs of $work: > > - IEEE-1588 / PTP > - Better power management > - imx6ul support > > On a personal level, I've thought about buying an imx6qp board and see > if the 'quad-plus' enhancements noticibly speed up anything except the > graphics processors we don't support. > > What doesn't work that you'd like to see working? That's probably the > best place to start with helping, but sometimes even just asking for > something gets surprising results. For example I think we lack a SPI > driver, and that's the kind of thing someone might spend a few days > writing if there were a request for it. > > -- Ian > >
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