i.MX53 (Re: Wandboard support?)

[Aleksandr Rybalko]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:52:10 -0600
Douglas Beattie <beattidp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Speaking of i.MX targets...
> 
> I have 2 different flavors of i.MX53-based development systems;
> the i.MX53 Low-cost ("LoCo") board, and actually two complete
> ConnectCore for i.MX53 JumpStart Kit for Android from Digi (which
> are fairly high-end kits, retailing for about $500).
> 
> In fact, I have been waiting for any word on renewed interest or
> momentum for the i.MX5/6 series. If someone is seriously interested
> in attempting a port, I would consider sending them one of my i.MX53
> ConnectCore kits, which is still unopened, in support of their efforts.
> This kit is a good platform for porting, since it has just about every possible
> peripheral available, including LCD, HDMI, WLAN, and even an SATA
> drive interface.
> 
> A few months ago, I dived in deep, looking at some of the NetBSD port
> code as well, but an ARM port of FreeBSD is still a little over my head.
> While I have done tons of embedded development over the past 15 years,
> this looks tough to do alone, or without prior FreeBSD/ARM driver experience.
> 
> Information on the boards I have are found at these links;
>   http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53QSB
>   http://www.digi.com/products/model?mid=4124
> 
> The i.MX5/6 are some nice ARM controllers -- I see some decent kits and
> modules in several places;
>   http://devicesolutions.net/Products/OpaliMX53DevelopmentKit.aspx
>   http://boundarydevices.com/products/nitrogen53-board-imx53-arm-cortex-a8-sbc/
>   http://www.embedinfo.com/english/product/sabrelite.asp
>   http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a9/var-som-mx6-cpu-freescale-imx6
> 
> Anyway, one interesting thing I noticed about the i.MX53 (and I suppose other
> family members of i.MX series) was the boot loader, which is basically a ROM-
> based BIOS boot loader, already built in, which can boot from several different
> peripheral sources, and which can take certain peripheral configuration instructions
> from a properly-structured table in the load record.
> 
> Maybe it's not too far over my head, if there were some collaboration, assuming
> hardware available (which it is).
> 
> --
> Douglas Beattie
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/beattidp
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 28, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 22:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >> I just received a dual core Wandboard (www.wandboard.org) in the
> >> believe it is supported.
> >> There is also a reference about rw_lock panic in april, which sounded
> >> like someone got it running in the end.
> >> But I can't find anything else, also no kernelconfig.
> >> 
> > 
> > Damjan Marion and I both started working on wandboard bringup a few
> > months ago (independently) and then we both set it aside after having a
> > little success.  Now there's interest in it at work again so I resumed
> > my efforts this weekend.  Right now I've got it booting to the point of
> > mountroot, but I don't have any working drivers that can be a root
> > device, so that's a pretty small success.  (I've got the single-core
> > board right now, I think we'll be using dual core at work.)
> > 
> > Hopefully I can get usb working in the next couple days (the controller
> > is almost the same as the imx51 we already support).  It looks like
> > we'll need an ethernet driver written from scratch, likewise mmc/sd.
> > 
> > -- Ian
> > 
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Hello Douglas,

as I know, most of FreeBSD ARM guys too busy to help now. But since you
have some knowledge in that area, I want to suggest you to join us on
#bsdmips irc channel (EFnet irc network), and we would help you to do it
yourself. At least I am ready to help.

Thanks!

WBW
-- 
Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net>