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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:31:20 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Christoph Roland Murauer <christoph_murauer@yahoo.de>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Cubieboard 2, UDOO and Galaxy Note 10.1 (Exynos).
Message-ID:  <20130926223120.GM65622@cicely7.cicely.de>
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:50:00PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:51 +0200, Christoph Roland Murauer wrote:
> > Thanks for your answers !
> > 
> > Am 11.09.2013 um 04:35 schrieb Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>:
> > 
> > >>> or the comming UDOO board (http://shop.udoo.org/pre-order/udoo-quad.html)
> > >>> to have a gateway / firewall on this device and between the other 2 devices
> > >>> ?
> > >> 
> > >> UDOO seems to have i.MX6 SoC which support is not in src tree yet, although
> > >> ian@ is working on it iirc.
> > > 
> > > I have a single-core i.mx6 (wandboard) booting to multiuser mode with
> > > sdcard and ethernet drivers working.  I don't have usb going yet, but
> > > someone else has it working on a quad-core, so that's more done than
> > > not.  If we weren't in a code freeze I'd be thinking about getting this
> > > bare-bones support checked in so others can hack on it too.
> > > 
> > > -- Ian
> > 
> > I am not a developer / programmer (maybe planned to learn some C) but what do you mean with ?code freeze" ? What could be done to get some progress at this topic ?
> > 
> 
> FreeBSD is getting close to releasing 10.0, so right now we can't make
> major changes to the source base, only fixes and changes that tend to
> stabilize things for the upcoming release.  Overall it's a great way to
> get a solid release on existing platforms, but it's a bit hard to work
> with right now in the ARM world where we have a lot of innovation
> happening and suddenly we can't check in anything for a few weeks.
> 
> I've got USB up and running on my solo, btw, and I'm working on some
> clock-and-power support that's a bit less of a hack than the ugly stuff
> I did to get the board to boot at all.  In  a few days I think I'll be
> able to publish a patchset anyone can use, even if I can't check it in
> for a while.  
> 
> I also ordered a wandboard quad, so in a couple weeks I'll have figured
> out what things I've foolishly done in a imx6-solo-specific way and
> rework them to work right on the whole imx6 family.

This is very exciting news.
I have two dual and one quad Wandboard waiting for FreeBSD to get installed.
Is also bought a dual core MarS-Board, since it has switches for Bootoptions.

What is the SMP status anyway?
Today I'd used crochet to get some tests done on Beaglebone Black,
RasberryPI and Zedboard.
So far all booted without problems, just the Raspi needed comconsole
setup added.
The Zedboard has dual core, but FreeBSD only used one.
I also noted that the Beaglebone Black seems to run at 550MHz only.
I've found out from NetBSD mailinglist, that the PLL must be
reprogrammed for higer frequency and the core voltage needs adjustment
too.
Of those 3 boards the BBB was the only board mention CPU frequency at all.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.



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