Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:57:39 -0800 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CompuLab - FreeScale i.MX6 CPU Message-ID: <5318E143.7080602@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <1394133043.1149.337.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <CAAcX-AGmhDMT2-RXYJxd8QGv_DeaG-dODRV6%2BgkovPTOGuWSow@mail.gmail.com> <5317AF31.8050408@nomadlogic.org> <1394133043.1149.337.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 03/06/14 11:10, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 15:11 -0800, Pete Wright wrote: >> >> On 03/04/14 23:17, Özkan KIRIK wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am interested with CompuLab Utilite Standart board. ( >>> http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-models ) >>> I saw that over SVN, FreeBSD has i.MX6 cpu support. >>> What about drivers of this board? >>> >>> Does HDMI and NICs works? >>> >>> Can you suggest a cheap and two ethernet arm board that FreeBSD works. >>> >> >> >> hey there Ozkan - I am hacking on getting this working in my minimal >> spare time. there are a couple major issues i've run into: >> >> 1) not really full featured u-boot environment, no usb boot support for >> example >> >> 2) flaky microSD support (had to try out several different cards to find >> a working one from sandisk) >> >> 3) network stack w/in u-boot has been unstable (unable to tftpboot >> images due to timeouts) >> >> the board does have some potential though - but it is not plug-and-play >> at this point. having said that - the up side is there is ton's of >> opportunity to make an impact on getting support for this device working >> in the freebsd-arm community :) >> >> cheers, >> -pete >> > > It's really strange that you should have such problems with u-boot. I > don't experience anything like that with the Wanboards, the network and > sdcard support seems solid. That's both in the u-boot that came with > the boards and in the ones I build myself from source. The Utilite > u-boot should be using all the same code as the Wandboards for that > stuff, it's all generic imx6 support code with just a few lines of > board-specific stuff in u-boot. > it is certainly possible that my network instability may be due to pebkac - i hope it is. once linux boots on the device the interfaces seem to work as expected, no error counts on the interfaces when doing tests. i am blocking some time out tomorrow to get back hacking on this and will hopefully be able to post some notes to the wiki. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org twitter => @nomadlogicLA
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