From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 17:01:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C15B106564A for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@grabthar.secnetix.de) Received: from grabthar.secnetix.de (grabthar.secnetix.de [212.17.241.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147848FC0C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from grabthar.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grabthar.secnetix.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8SH1Biv076192; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:01:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by grabthar.secnetix.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q8SH1AGt076191; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:01:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:01:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <201209281701.q8SH1AGt076191@grabthar.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG, John-Mark Gurney In-Reply-To: <20120927172415.GO19036@funkthat.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-embedded User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/9.1-PRERELEASE-20120811 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Looking for hardware advice 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: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:01:13 -0000 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