Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:36:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk> To: rdawes@ucsd.edu Cc: mestery@visi.com, wes@softweyr.com, jabley@patho.gen.nz, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32-bit sparc port Message-ID: <19990715093636.0139F1550D@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990714185547.22779A-100000@capistrano> (rjdawes@physics.ucsd.edu)
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Richard J. Dawes (rdawes@ucsd.edu) wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 mestery@visi.com wrote:
>> > mestery@visi.com wrote:
>> >
>> > The Digitial Network Appliance, the "reference design" for the StrongArm,
>> > ran a BSD variant that was reported at different times as being either
>> > NetBSD or FreeBSD. The truth seems to be a NetBSD-ARM kernel with some
>> > FreeBSD utilities. You can probably still find it floating around
>> > somewhere.
>> >
>> > I'd buy a NetWinder if I could get either NetBSD or FreeBSD on it. ;^)
>> >
>> The Netwinder is a nice machine. I am more interested (truthfully) in
>> using FreeBSD on some embedded control processors we have that happen to
>> be based on the Digitial EBAS-285 design. Linux runs nicely on these,
>> but it would be fun to get FreeBSD running on them also. I think the
>> two OSs can leverage stuff from each other quite nicely.
> In recently checking out other *BSD sites, I came across a link
>to Chalice Technology (UK) -- www.chaltech.com -- under NetBSD's port
>pages for ARM/StrongARM. They have a PCI m/b ("CATS") billed as a
>"prototyping system" for embedded work, but that doubles as good desktop
>m/b. And pretty cheap, too! Does anyone know about this? If NetBSD
>runs on it, then why not FreeBSD?
This is the StrongArm system that I bought. It was cheaper than a
Netwinder and can use better graphics cards etc. since it is just
a motherboard. Plus it runs *BSD not Linux.
It comes with a NetBSD-1.3 CD, but I have upgraded mine to 1.4.
I suppose this is getting a bit off-topic for freebsd-sparc.
Robert
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