From owner-freebsd-arm Tue Jul 24 20: 0:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E93737B405; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6P2xfO07226; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:59:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dave Feustel Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , "Stephane E. Potvin" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor Message-ID: <20010724195941.E5825@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010722124327.C575@zeus.videotron.ca> <20010722151056.E49508@sneakerz.org> <20010723213918.A736@zeus.videotron.ca> <20010724075128.C110@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010724175511.C59947@mail.webmonster.de> <001501c11460$9511c430$fa9f173f@dafcopreqlqo05> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001501c11460$9511c430$fa9f173f@dafcopreqlqo05>; from dfeustel@mindspring.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:49:16AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:49:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > Strongarm-based pcs designed by Chalice Technologies http://www.chaltech.com > are available from Simtek http://www.simtec.co.uk/ This brings up the issue of reference platform for the StrongARM port. There is no one clear choice as there is for the PowerPC. Realistically, we probably need to pick an easily obtainable consumer StrongARM product. The Compaq iPaq comes to mind. However, it is not development-friendly at the moment as it does not have peripherals such as built-in NIC, hard drive, or serial console capabilities. Of all the products I know of, I like the CATS board the best. However, the last time I investigated the CATS board, they were very expensive and hard to find in the USA. For some reason $600 stands out in my mind. I know of 10+ DNARDs in the BSD community, thus my preference for that machine as the reference platform. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arm" in the body of the message