Gateworks Avila GW2348-4

[Olivier Houchard]

Hi Henrik,

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:14:32PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Seeing how FreeBSD/arm seems have become the de facto reference
> implementation for embedded FreeBSD I thought I might as well get into
> the loop and order myself an ARM development board (I have previously
> only worked with embedded FreeBSD on x86 and that other operating
> system on x86, ColdFire and mips32).
> 
> I have my eyes set on the Gateworks Avila GW2348-4 but before ordering
> one there are a few things, I'd like to know. Hopefully, someone on
> this list can answer my questions.
> 
> I have only found one European reseller of the GW2348-4, DD-WRT SHOP
> [1], and according to their website the GW2348-4 is currently out of
> stock. Anybody know of any other European resellers?
> 
> Gateworks lists an optional type A USB host interface for the
> GW2348-4, but I have been unable to find any reseller that holds this
> version of the board. Anybody here have one? Know where/if I can get
> one? USB isn't crucial as I will mostly be using the board to get
> aquinted with the ARM architecture (and, I hope, do some FreeBSD
> development), but it's a nice to have feature.
> 

I can't help for those, sorry. Beware however, I don't think we currently
support the USB port. It shouldn't be too hard, but it's just not there.

> Anybody know if all Avila boards are sold with the Redboot bootstrap
> bootloader - or is that only included in the Development Kit? Is this
> a vanilla version of Redboot, or does it require custom patches to
> work with the Avila boards?
> 

I'm quite sure it will come with RedBoot. And I think vanilla won't work out
of the box, because it will lack the ethernet driver.


Cheers,

Olivier