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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:57:49 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Maximiliano Eschoyez <meschoyez@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Marcelo cebollada y verdaguer <mcebollada@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Development contribution for Allwinner Family (our first step)
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On Sep 11, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Maximiliano Eschoyez wrote:

> Dear all:
>=20
> We are a recently born working group at the Facultad de Ciencias =
Exactas,
> F=EDsicas y Naturales (http://www.efn.uncor.edu/), Universidad =
Nacional de
> C=F3rdoba (http://www.unc.edu.ar/) interested in technologies for =
education,
> from server configuration/administration to embedded systems.
>=20
> Marcelo Cebollada and me are the leaders of the group and we are =
leading
> students professional practices and final career projects.
>=20
> My first FreeBSD installation was 2.2.6 (1998), when I was a student.
> Today, we have several servers with different BSD flavors serving =
different
> services for the University. Our largest service over FreeBSD is a =
Moodle
> Installation (http://lev.efn.uncor.edu/). In the next weeks we will =
start
> working to have a FreeBSD mirror in one of our new servers.

Fun...

> We started our embedded tour with the Mele A1000 (Allwinner A10). You =
have
> also seen mail from our students that were working with it (Mariano
> Lescano, Jos=E9 Ribodino and Manuel Ferreiro). They succeed embedding =
FreeBSD
> upon all driver limitations. Also, they could run FreeBSD on a =
Cubieboard
> in a similar way as Crochet does. Now, they are working on a tutorial. =
Of
> course, we want to contribute our experience.

We'd love to see that...

> Now, we have a Raspberry Pi, two Cubieboard 1 and two small systems (
> http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/231118984.html). We are waiting the
> arriving of a  Cubieboard 2 and some QT960-A2 (
> =
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/TV-BOX-QT960-A2-Android-Set-Top-TV-BOX-1GB-=
RAM-4GB-ROM-HDMI-Allwinner-A20/1184857989.html
> ).

The A20 is newer than the A10 that I have... I've had my Cubieboard put =
away for a bit, maybe I should get it out...

> Two other students are starting they professional practice in driver
> development. They will focus on Cubieboard 1 and 2, especifically in =
SD,
> NAND flash and Ethernet drivers.

Way cool!

> We want to know the status of Cubieboard drivers. Is anyone working on =
it?
> Do you have some suggestions about how to start? So, all your help =
would be
> very appreciated.

My Cubieboard can boot on a USB thumb drive. We don't have good drivers =
for the SD or NAND or NIC (maybe the latter is better now)...

Warner

> We hope we can contribute to the FreeBSD Project.
>=20
> --=20
> Saludos cordiales,
>=20
>      Maximiliano Eschoyez
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