Cavium Econa CNS34XX on Gateworks GW2388-4

[Mark Tinguely]

On 1/4/2011 2:32 AM, G D wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Would anyone like to work on porting FreeBSD to the Cavium Econa CNS34XX
> series of processors? Gateworks has their new Laguna GW2388-4 board with the
> CNS3420 processor. I'm willing to donate a board and enclosure to a
> volunteer who will do the porting work.
>
> This is just a personal desire. I like to run the pfSense router/firewall
> distribution based on FreeBSD and I'd like to see it running on this
> board/processor.
>
> Thanks,
> Gabriel
>
> P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me on replies. Thanks.

Looks like an interesting board.

I see that it is a dual processor. The low level code needs to be 
rewritten for SMP. Too bad it is an ARMv6 rather than an ARMv7. ARMv7 
has hardware access bit support and Multiprocessor Extensions for cache 
operations.

--Mark Tinguely.