Came across some new boards

[John-Mark Gurney]

sr at jsreedinc.com wrote this message on Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:15 -0400:
> > Warner Losh wrote this message on Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 21:22 -0600:
> >> In message: <a0cbc9ea672b83081f2d3a0f58cad94b at jsreedinc.com>
> >>             <sr at jsreedinc.com> writes:
> >> : http://www.glomationinc.com/products.html look like some decent boards
> > for
> >> : the price. I'm going to order one for the hell of it and see what I
> > can do.
> >>
> >> Which one?  One of the Cirrus Logic ones, or the Samsung one?  The
> >> cirrus logic ones likely would be easy.
> 
> Yeah, particularly this one http://www.glomationinc.com/product_9302E.html
> since it seems awfully cheap but, I believe most on that page are cirrus
> logic ARM. "Starting at $65" to me says thats for quantity one, unless they
> only sell them in quantity 100 without any sampling. 
> 
> >>
> >> : Also,
> >> : http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts7400-spec-s.htm
> >> : I noticed at the bottom it says they support netbsd, could code be
> > ported
> >> : from netbsd to FreeBSD?
> >>
> >> Yes.  There's a ts7200 port in p4 now.  There's some issues with the
> >> cpld and the ethernet last time I checked.  It's likely a little
> > 
> > Yeh... I never got around to finding out why ethernet did not work
> > reliably...  And no one from EmbeddedArm or Cirrus Logic was interested
> > in helping me out...  Having the ethernet port drop only some packets
> > (but not the ones to make nfs root unusable) made it anoying...  Even
> > though I was using the ported NetBSD driver, they simply said: works
> > on NetBSD tough luck...
> > 
> >> bitrotted now, but could be resurrected fairly easily.  What's really
> >> needed is someone to do the leg work.
> > 
> > Or some decent support to figure out why ethernet doesn't work...  If
> > you don't need ethernet working, then just updating the drivers to the
> > new io bus shouldn't be hard, and gets most things working..
> 
> Ethernet is a pretty big deal in my situation. I assume with any TCP
> protocol it will retransmit until it is sent? I had a brand new system

Sadly no...  Unless the retransmit is a different packet, but if it
keeps retrying the same packet that was dropped, it will never send
the packet...  The dropping seems to be data related...

> running amd64 a few years ago and the NIC would drop a few packets then
> watchdog timeout and the system would have to be rebooted, that was no
> good. 
> 
> I have email Jesse at embeddedARM/technologic with some general questions
> on supporting FreeBSD, have yet to hear back from him though.

Good luck...  I didn't have any when trying to deal w/ them...

You might have better luck talking w/ Glomation...  It shouldn't be
hard to bring it up on a different board...  Already have the serial
port driver working for the EP9302...

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