From owner-freebsd-small Tue Dec 19 14:40:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 14:40:22 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E894637B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 79D805730A; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:40:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:40:21 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Paul Becke Cc: Devin Butterfield , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: StrongARM support? Message-ID: <20001219164021.B1835@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Paul Becke , Devin Butterfield , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard References: <78656.976769151@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <3A3862E4.5A46E14C@wireless.net> <20001218151235.D69041@peorth.iteration.net> <3A3EA852.A668B554@wireless.net> <20001219125657.A94588@peorth.iteration.net> <3A3FB4AF.106716C6@javagear.com> <20001219135140.B29492@peorth.iteration.net> <3A3FCBEE.144E4DA5@javagear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A3FCBEE.144E4DA5@javagear.com>; from pbecke@javagear.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:58:22PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:58:22PM -0600, Paul Becke scribbled: | > I do not see much difference between the Brutus and the Assabet. | > Do you? | | I have never looked at the Brutus so I don't know. IMHO and from what I have heard from Intel, they are moving people away from the Brutus and the CPU (SA-1100?) and moving in favor of the Assebet. I think most of the work should go in that direction. | > | platform. Based on my experience with NetBSD, I think that I could be of | > | assistance in initiating a FreeBSD port. I actually do most of my | > | development unsing an Arm cross compliler on a FreeBSD platform. What does | > | > Do you have a shell script or a FreeBSD Ports skeleton for a cross compiler? | > The first thing to do would be to establish a toolchain. If you can | > send me the necessary information to build "your" crossgcc, I will | > get the port done and send it into usr/ports/. | | I do have shell scripts. One version produces code for a generic aout and | another produces code for the NetBSD aout. I think for FreeBSD we would want to | move to elf right away. I'll work to clean up the scripts a bit and then stick | them on a ftp server. I'll send out a URL when I have them ready. Cool. Please Cc: me when you do. As I have said, I'll get the crosscompiler port done. | > For those interest in the ARM/StrongARM port and lacking hardware, buying | > a Psion seris7 or a Compaq iPaQ would be the el cheapo^W^Weconomical | > solution. You would have a little more trouble with reseting, but the | > other functions work. If you get a CF slot and a CF disk for the iPaQ | > and a serial connection, then you are set for development | > | | An iPaQ is probably the best platform to work on for porting FreeBSD. As you | point out, it is relatively inexpensive and readily available, and Compaq seems | to be relatively forth coming with technical information. I have heard that is | it is very difficult, if not impossible to get information on the Psion. Right, and you also get a PDA with an iPaQ. | > Do wavelan devices work on NetBSD/ARM? | | I am not familiar with wavelan devices. So far I have ignored much of the | Networking code in NetBSD because my particular application does not require it. Thanks anyway :) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message