From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jul 15 11:32:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF57F14D61 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA05332; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:30:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA25775; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:30:58 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA28627; Thu, 15 Jul 99 11:30:46 PDT Message-Id: <378E28D6.6451F2C5@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:30:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 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 References: <199907150936.DAA10575@obie.softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message