Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:49:25 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Cc: dfeustel@mindspring.com, karsten@rohrbach.de, sepotvin@videotron.ca, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor Message-ID: <20010726124924.B96660@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200107251321.f6PDLK500455@rjspc.genrad.com>; from rjs@genrad.co.uk on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:21:21PM %2B0100 References: <20010724195941.E5825@dragon.nuxi.com> <200107251321.f6PDLK500455@rjspc.genrad.com>
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:21:21PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > I would suggest that at least two reference platforms are needed. I personally am not sure about that. People may have an assumption that FreeBSD wants to do as Wind River does -- that is WRS natively supports every commercially available PowerPC or StrongARM board there is. This includes non-CPU chipset support. This is way beyond what FreeBSD can really do (IMHO). What FreeBSD can do, is provide a distribution that runs on the selected FreeBSD selected reference HW. Those wanting to use FreeBSD in some embedded application now have a set of bits to start from. > The Compaq iPAQ is very different to a Netwinder/CATS/DNARD class > machine since it uses the SA1110 rather than the SA110 + 21285. > If anyone has got one, the Intel IQ80310 board is another potential > target. Anyone developing new network or server products would use > the 80310 instead of the SA110. "if anyone has got one" is the problem. I spoke with an Intel rep from their embedded division last night. They were not able to recommend a reference board/machine from Intel to use for this because they really don't have a good offering. > The iPAQ is extremely developer-friendly IMHO. Compaq CRL do a very > good job of providing documentation and firmware for it. The same > firmware also supports the Jornada 720. I cannot easily put a real keyboard and monitor on an iPAQ can I? Or use a serial console? The issue isn't necessarily how helpful the vendor is, but how easily I can turn the HW into something that resembles a development computer. I don't want to have to use graffiti to do toolchain development. The demos I've seen of the iPAQ you have to use the stylus rather than mouse. I did see one very chinsey(sp?) keyboard solution for the iPAQ, but not the ability to use a real mouse, etc. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arm" in the body of the message
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