FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P

[Warner Losh]

I have one of these too that I was handed a little bit ago. The initial
issue that I saw
was NAND support... Other than that, though, it didn't look terrible.

Warner



On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>
wrote:

>
>  The R here does not stand for the RealTime profile from ARM, it's just
> one Allwinner chip line.
>
>  The R8 is basically an A13 which is basically an A10 which FreeBSD
> support, so it should be easy to port FreeBSD on the R8.
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:32:57 +0100
> Kris <krisb at interia.eu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Werner,
> > Basically there is interest (I am waiting for x2 CHIP boards, they are
> > due in March, but I think they will be slightly delayed).
> > Before I get boards the only reasonable thing for me to do is to get as
> > much out of existing tree to see how it can be ported, but no actual
> work.
> >
> > Please be careful - there is no such a thing like Cortex A13. A13 is
> > just a marketing name Allwinner gave to their product. And I believe
> > CHIP put Allwinner R8 on their board (normally in ARM nomenclature,
> > R=for deeply embedded devices, A=for applications, but again, it is
> > Allwinner so you can expect anything from their naming convention).
> > However R8 is indeed equipped with Cortex A8 core, for which I believe
> > some work has been done - see Allwinner A20 in repo - it has the same
> > core if my memory serves right (it is even pin compatible with single
> > core Allwinner A10 -> again Cortex A8 :)
> >
> > Kris
> >
> > On 02/11/16 01:07, Werner Thie wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > is there any interest or work going on making FreeBSD available on the
> > > $9 CHIP from nextthing.co?
> > >
> > > Basically it's a Cortex A13, 1GHz ARM V7A with 512MB RAM, NAND flash
> > > and a slew of peripherals, the datasheet can be found on
> > >
> > > https://linux-sunxi.org/images/e/eb/A13_Datasheet.pdf
> > >
> > > Werner
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