From nobody Thu Jul 15 11:43:10 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E621277469 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi1-x236.google.com (mail-oi1-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::236]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1O1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GQXZ24hVvz4pc1 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi1-x236.google.com with SMTP id w188so6179822oif.10 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:43:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=xNFK3FEeCX3UnXAIAAQFRMLc3pHFf6Je+JytB6c3wgM=; b=FkZsD1hiZjIQsnOeVnUJONlIuq6yTeB52Fjy9AXZYC67bfegdYxZJyGZvTKCxzdUGH cAtCArP8QWdad7mx6iwMT0gX0Zv9a1ooEg7Ya/JpIlOVMbphCUaqz2Bm3Mn0eUJ9lq91 jl8fSKqfHKl1Lm6rXGEmBT60+WsWSA2m9lPYpe+l+atGecSzL5nt24LssLu0J4Zl0m/q /d1ym1te2KwK11/zT9Zdd5KT39ZKpDkg3K5SdkC9s5ddYJoobEv3dEW9873LRLUC9dz+ f8IWsQyn69i85mKRlMziLZSitYHguzw1//klT7HhxxcE/ZaCj7pH0iGT6d5mR92YJlwn 4tcg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=xNFK3FEeCX3UnXAIAAQFRMLc3pHFf6Je+JytB6c3wgM=; b=K18GIjJZLIs99CKJknHxg2t9S4DBMBKZCOdkpc6beL3bDY82A1pcE+4N2BY1Nyqcpz rtdT12WiIwnqwk2drs8qH4qjvIVc5PvzMKePaTZtXO6a1e1kEH5grnfzdP9+ZeDx+qju tZ66+wM2KQjqhURJQt33wb2EkvaUWZNYt0uzuixAvRI6ta5YNjhSHS0Syt47SlTcYA99 Wv0CJunGaREILVAqKMi/we1m+/enKwaNCsWB8eMb+phljqhE98O+JgZADfZ72U0W1HRG V23324O6OLyv2e2NnI4AyieKHnOQzUp+CJHNIbLjoI1CZtTa0hcz/RrymwuYOeFWtY+o p0HQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531GLv2/R8ib7jRpHYn3fr+Nq3ZaBNLWsoa1FyzOKNiuasSyI2DP C085FqTZXhzWfbC/afJQiOA0qy1wsP+rJKTMSck= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJw6/W6C4f2UjeAodlxQXzk68brGkVTy98JzmfRL6wWnOF/+F4ogIR1QQammxpnnmkGJo3ykgpVRkXkw3ESevco= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:2d2:: with SMTP id a18mr7764534oid.106.1626349401522; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:43:21 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:43:10 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD for new SOC To: Sleep Walker Cc: Free BSD Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000005bc65205c727faee" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GQXZ24hVvz4pc1 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: Y --0000000000005bc65205c727faee Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 7:23 PM Sleep Walker wrote: > Hello FreeBSD ARM community! > > I would like to discuss one issue. > > A lot of devices have already been sold in the world on Amlogic processors. > These are SBCs and VIDEO consoles. > But they all run on Andriod or Linux. No FreeBSD support ;-). > > If it had been, the user community would have grown a lot, FreeBSD would > have grown in popularity, and the number of testers and committers would > have increased. > This would make FreeBSD for ARM even more stable. > > What are your thoughts on porting FreeBSD to Amlogic? > Such attempts have been made before > https://github.com/tomtor/image-freebsd-c2 > NetBSD supports multiple SBCs on Amlogic > http://www.armbsd.org/arm/ > Why don't we add this support too? > Amlogic support was removed last November since there wasn't anyone who could maintain amlogic related codes: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=367993 Ganbold > > I know several Chinese manufacturers who would be happy to send samples > of their products to developers. > > I recently received a RADXA ZERO on Amlogic S905Y2 as a free samples > https://wiki.radxa.com/Zero/hardware > https://forum.radxa.com/t/introduce-the-radxa-zero/6550 > > It is a very interesting and tiny device, it comes with Android > pre-installed on eMMC, > not even Mainline Linux support yet. > > I've been studying FreeBSD for ARM for two years now and really want to > learn > add support for new SOCs to FreeBSD. > > I now have 3 SOCs to add > 1) Pine64 Quartz64, > 2) Radxa Zero > 3) First Russian ARM SOC - BAIKAL-M > https://www.baikalelectronics.com/products/338/ > > In all three variants, I have the necessary equipment. > And I have a great desire to learn. > > I have already written a USB driver for BAIKAL-M and am successfully > booting the system in multi-user mode. > The results can be viewed here https://pkg.personalbsd.org/baikal/ > > It succeeded because many devices on BAIKAL-M use fixed-clock and > everything is built on DesignWare IP. > > But I stopped at the need to write a clock driver necessary for Ethernet > and PCIe to work. > > If anyone would agree to advise me, I would be extremely grateful. > > I am willing to provide access to BAIKAL-M but ssh (since USB Ethernet > works) > for easier collaboration and learning. > > Any help or advice would be appreciated. > > I am extremely interested in participating in the FreeBSD porting project > to the new SOC because I want to contribute to the popularization of > FreeBSD. > > -- > Yours faithfully, > Sergey Tyuryukanov > --0000000000005bc65205c727faee--