From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 02:03:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3C899EA for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f182.google.com (mail-pd0-f182.google.com [209.85.192.182]) (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 BF9D0897 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f182.google.com with SMTP id y10so322689pdj.27 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:03:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:message-id:references:to; bh=wuwrglzphPuCpGeXyB8524ZTx8grx2pyg90wHfb3VDI=; b=GZHHug+F54D3CZXgi7Yq/kDsgT8o5HlHTpIad+afZMuJsiZ3l3dHa2Iet3noYEiPav zySMKxou6e4anGAOkSL2CnX8w3rryEZHY3LA/MdFIBHcp1hhtNvJRyOvgxpsCkItzByo NElhCxYqStOrV6ixWyiKYvbYcosRQJx9L3DmKwjdml31IsL+nn7r1D8GVcCsZ+bGbmUy S2vZehwiOopWybYKpGU3eMgt6wKZxcfHaEt7uRgV1s9jyYZE2ZMK2u9y0v6U/7h9hfd4 LNXJr9SiEciz4GBWzzmHtjymaHNo0cwyRlJ8P1POUwKC1NV6iIA4LtKG3ioBmIK7wHTz pqcA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnJHOUj3zsOBOF/9m2RF4TQ9toJ6T3Hk29zTXw6qZ0/IFkb1m31/wtfLd/metUeklFRTm29 X-Received: by 10.70.65.37 with SMTP id u5mr9167836pds.93.1413338160050; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.64.26.87] (dc1-prod.netflix.com. [69.53.236.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gz1sm15438703pbb.8.2014.10.14.18.55.58 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_9C2397BB-9D3F-462C-8ABF-2408CD299D9F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: Online.net new offer featuring ARMv7 based servers [LONG] From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:55:56 -0600 Message-Id: References: <20141014205203.GA78703@lonrach.local> To: Zbigniew Bodek X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: Ollivier Robert , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:03:36 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_9C2397BB-9D3F-462C-8ABF-2408CD299D9F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Oct 14, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Zbigniew Bodek wrote: > Also, there is FDT support in FreeBSD but the DTS file is different > for FreeBSD and Linux (you can check out > sys/boot/fdt/dts/arm/db78460.dts). In theory Linux DTS file will not > work with our kernel but with very little work one can tune FreeBSD's > DTS as desired (I know that this isn't exactly how FDT should work > since DTS is supposed to be OS-independent). The ideal we=92re striving for is to be able to use unmodified vendor = DTS files. We=92re not there yet, and there=92s some issues that need to be = overcome in specific cases before we will be there. If you or anybody else is = doing work in this area, please consider improving the compatibility. We=92ll = gain more in the long run, imho. Warner --Apple-Mail=_9C2397BB-9D3F-462C-8ABF-2408CD299D9F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUPdQsAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEABI0QAIsbYDWixXI2+pgDAfyQhFF/ C7WjH33mmTXuEviGRwy7JrKmJsSi9TKFQXFfL1PcZEC/zV2K2STdmaXp6iYPA4wV 2LI/Kt6vHu8Du0QCI95IxU6CyvmeBwX25CyF4V+0esSknwcndTV92f5t5FjcZUgI yscO8YA9+nLA9lBYfa+4UJAQBk3MUhwJYo8wzeerS1+1g5HdUacqWkbTtA7ovf29 AxI/ULGd9nZyibVGPS6mpjOuUqjj043jxGjKShN7VPj7RsjuID1Fua060BIkI2iK b7rrcevrfAfCji8HhUE2lByNSF8VGmG5OMp6wT/sCFROrAAkC7F6TByxeUvHTDgm u8ve2aq8Ew1LE1Z22hHKDyKwPIjWGJcjz8nqtQV84uSrEflzhMm7UwaisihhT8mX DOMl/sQSCZQ6d1TT6B/AINDGGRdNarOZN8wNPpxhmAr/dWRcZwfc99Xzeeg3m2nP 5wvW/h8s+CF6Y9J75DKWynbWkIzbFMDCMKx1fC/eJegeZYZ9QNjPyzcoG6AdFG7B oCU/Wk0ZdwrRpvxmlJbm8U/u6kNxcav063FlSqscTiBWFDmUN2p+geayP1LAic/9 IjX2gU+2ide4LmNg8dUC9V6ex0Y9PJgXSydIo9aC2iMWOgaK99/keoJooJbZRcvW fIDn1ZUddGUTBwQzRqo9 =Csh+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_9C2397BB-9D3F-462C-8ABF-2408CD299D9F--