From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 23:38:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B06F82CA for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f49.google.com (mail-pb0-f49.google.com [209.85.160.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 832912F60 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f49.google.com with SMTP id jt11so6719188pbb.22 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:37:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to; bh=AiGnE/zTLPWDwdy2I+uNM0WGgvasPtn5gwG6OGV/+gI=; b=dAmVb+s0Ol2WRij6dxwFoffhuL8fzsvKuifIC6cxS3Z4twDNXJoBrYleWp3Otod1jT 0b/ELK1uZmcrw4x4r7R9CcrJsb4Rqg7uIfeX8BUYjh7XeOcbhxPQWkS+l9AiSxkGjv6q sD232IOYanIrAJ2zo6s9ZvZPn8m0C+NiM6GQqlEJBLVx9MY3SoyEPQ8auX9Qna23+Aok CTNWzYp4kSfGdtpwyM03K84xGdl28p01ShvzJmp5LG/VgPGI1QqG0DZHSDJJdfst3vYM 8yf+GAFRBtJyFuIW++Sn2fTPppALWtbN9OlCVWosLw8+dFLUcbt6qjdPw91qYt5v64as P+4A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnZ45wEMAr8m7v4PnpYJKJj8IN7+Oq9Is4+/d7i2voMAdSVjy3LfAPHcTQoeHRJQicvePNG X-Received: by 10.66.142.135 with SMTP id rw7mr8873709pab.71.1402443164400; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:32:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (c-24-6-220-224.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [24.6.220.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id kl10sm259679pbd.20.2014.06.10.16.32.43 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) Subject: Re: Compilation for ARM From: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: <1402428857.20883.177.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:31:57 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0292EAB5-F536-464D-9BF7-C4CA9B72639D@kientzle.com> References: <53935D02.2030604@narod.ru> <6D7645D2-9C08-4B5D-BAA5-5B6EC8F66F0B@kientzle.com> <5393FF7B.4020407@narod.ru> <1402428857.20883.177.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> To: Ian Lepore X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.2) Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:38:04 -0000 On Jun 10, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 12:15 +0600, Stepan Dyatkovskiy wrote: >> Hi Tim, >> Thank you for quick response! >> I will try your advices straight after weekends. >> We are using pandaboard. Are here any other cortex-a9/a15 boards that >> has, perhaps, better support in FreeBSD OS? If so, we ready to test it >> too, because the only thing we need in pandaboard for now is its CPU. >> >> Thanks! >> -Stepan > > I think the TI OMAP/AM335x chip probably has the best cortex a9 freebsd > support right now. The AM335x is Cortex-A8. If that suffices, I would recommend looking at the BeagleBone Black as one of the best-supported boards for FreeBSD right now. > Second would probably be the freescale imx6 family, > mainly because we use it where I work so I get paid to support it. But > the TI support has been around for a lot longer than imx6 and is more > mature right now. > > -- Ian