From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 00:07:07 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1359DD6D; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp5.ore.mailhop.org (smtp5.ore.mailhop.org [54.186.10.118]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E20778B9; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:07:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [73.34.117.227] (helo=ilsoft.org) by smtp5.ore.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YGcdP-0003GF-1k; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:06:59 +0000 Received: from revolution.hippie.lan (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by ilsoft.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t0T06rPk029327; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:06:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) X-Mail-Handler: DuoCircle Outbound SMTP X-Originating-IP: 73.34.117.227 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@duocircle.com (see https://support.duocircle.com/support/solutions/articles/5000540958-duocircle-standard-smtp-abuse-information for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19FuY4xdbtzhBpr88i4Mx/a Message-ID: <1422490013.15718.79.camel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System-On-Module From: Ian Lepore To: "Lundberg, Johannes" Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:06:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20150128183231.GI58886@cicely7.cicely.de> <1422473251.15718.70.camel@freebsd.org> <20150128201440.GA73589@cicely7.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.8 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Current , ticso@cicely.de, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:07:07 -0000 On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:28 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote: > By the way, this is for an embedded mobile device so we are looking for > something more like > > http://www.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/smarc/smarc-samx6i.html > > instead of Wandboard which has all the connectors that we won't use. That's similar to the EDM module that wandboards use: http://www.technexion.com/products/edm/edm-som/edm1-cf-imx6 You can buy the EDM modules directly from Technexion if you're willing to buy quantity, or through resellers like Digikey. The EDM modules from technexion are compatible with the wandboard carrier boards, so you can use a few cheap wandboards as devel and eval boards (or you can buy the overpriced "fairyboard" carrier from technexion that has PCIe connectors that wandboard lacks). We're using these modules at $work, and that's basically the path I took... I started with a wandboard and got freebsd running on it, and once it got past the proof of concept stage (the minimum set of drivers for the imx6 devices we need, and reasonable freebsd stability -- I had a board running a stress test with 2 months of uptime) we designed our own motherboards with EDM sockets on them. -- Ian