From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jul 15 2:36:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from euromail1.genrad.com (x254.genrad.co.uk [195.99.3.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0139F1550D for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swindellsr@genrad.co.uk) Received: from CDP437 (cdp437.uk.genrad.com [132.223.130.44]) by euromail1.genrad.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 36G4FCFV; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:36:08 +0100 From: Robert Swindells To: rdawes@ucsd.edu Cc: mestery@visi.com, wes@softweyr.com, jabley@patho.gen.nz, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (rjdawes@physics.ucsd.edu) Subject: Re: 32-bit sparc port Reply-To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <19990715093636.0139F1550D@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message