Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:01:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Subject: Re: Looking for hardware advice Message-ID: <201209281701.q8SH1AGt076191@grabthar.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20120927172415.GO19036@funkthat.com>
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John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 18:26 +0200: > > I'm sorry, this is probably off-topic, but I couldn't find > > much useful information on the web. > > > > I'm looking for a small board that's well supported by > > FreeBSD (head or stable/9). > > I recently picked up a BeagleBONE and I haven't done much with it, but > it's working good... It's pretty darn small and has all the features > your talking about.. Using Tim Kientzle's scripts[1], building an > image from -HEAD is very easy... I'm even building the image from > PCBSD9 VM... Sounds good. > > It should ... > > > > - ... be as small as possible (physical size). > > 3.4" x 2.1" small enough for you? Yes, that's pretty good. I've skimmed through the messages on the -arm list of the past few weeks ... It seems that USB support isn't there yet, and I haven't seen any indication of GPIO working. Both of them are a must for me. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth
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