FreeBSD on the AP121 (AR9330)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Mar 27 21:16:48 UTC 2013


On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Angel M Alganza wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:48:13AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> So I have FreeBSD mostly booting on the AR9330 based SoCs.
>> 
>> The trouble? These ship with 16MB RAM and 4MB flash.
> 
> Wow, that's so cool!  I lost any hope to be able
> to run FreeBSD on my Zipit Z2 Messengers.  They
> are ARM based and ship with 8MB NAND and 32MB RAM.
> There are several Linux distributions running on
> them, but running BSD would be so much cooler...

You can have mine. Oh, wait, mine is a Z1, which is arm7 + MMU based. The Z2 is StrongArm PXA based, iirc, so that should be doable.

Warner




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