From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 11:59:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Embedded@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EB71065672; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:59:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Daan@vehosting.nl) Received: from VM01.VEHosting.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f14:32d::1:140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC288FC0A; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:59:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Daan@vehosting.nl) Received: from [192.168.72.10] (124-54.bbned.dsl.internl.net [92.254.54.124]) (authenticated bits=0) by VM01.VEHosting.nl (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0JBxugS092482; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:59:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Daan@vehosting.nl) From: Daan Vreeken Organization: VEHosting - Vitsch Electronics Hosting To: FreeBSD-PPC@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:59:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901191259.50518.Daan@vehosting.nl> x-ve-auth-version: mi-1.0.3 2008-05-30 - Copyright (c) 2008 - Daan Vreeken - VEHosting x-ve-auth: authenticated as 'pa4dan' on VM01.VEHosting.nl Cc: FreeBSD-Embedded@FreeBSD.org Subject: PowerPC embedded board? X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:59:57 -0000 Hi all, For a new product I am looking for an embedded powerpc board. For the project we need the following : o A board that can (in the near future) boot FreeBSD. o Support for hardware floating point arithmetic. o The board should have some form of bus / IO to connect custom-made peripheral(s) to. Searching the internet I've already stumbled upon the Efika [1] and SAM440 [2] boards, which both look promising, but as far as my Google-skills go, it looks like both boards need more work to get FreeBSD fully functional on them. I'm thinking of buying a couple of boards and helping an interested developer by either setting up a compile & test environment that is accessible over ssh, or donating an entire board (or both :) So I've got some questions : o Are there more interresting boards I could/should consider? (Or even boards that can already run FreeBSD?) o What board is most likely to grow FreeBSD support in the near future? o What parts are currently missing to get these boards up and running? 1: http://www.efika.de/index_en.html , http://www.directron.com/efikakit1.html 2: http://sam440.com/eng/sam440ep-flex.html Kind regards, -- Daan Vreeken VEHosting http://VEHosting.nl tel: +31-(0)40-7113050 / +31-(0)6-46210825 KvK nr: 17174380