Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:30:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Cc: rdawes@ucsd.edu, mestery@visi.com, jabley@patho.gen.nz, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32-bit sparc port Message-ID: <378E28D6.6451F2C5@softweyr.com> References: <199907150936.DAA10575@obie.softweyr.com>
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Robert Swindells wrote:
>
> 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.
Gee, at $550 for a motherboard + chip + 32MB RAM, it doesn't seem all that cheap.
I guess that's the wonder of the x86 world, I can buy a good quality motherboard,
a K6-III 400, and a 64MB SDRAM DIMM (100 Mhz) for $249. The SA-110 is nice
little chip, but a 400Mhz K6-III will stomp it into the ground on performance.
> 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.
Time for FreeBSD-arm? Again? ;^)
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