Xilinx Zynq-7000 Support

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:58:40PM +0100, Aleksander Dutkowski wrote:
> FreeBSD has support for PandaBoard which has dual Cortex-a9 SoC. We might
> try this some as a start point.

That's good to know, so the ARM core itself should be already supported.

> Anyway I have access to ZedBoard and want to play with it in couple of
> weeks :) So if you begin developing the port, please give me an email.

I don't have access to any Zynq board yet.
Adapteva estimated mid next year, but I might buy a ZedBoard earlier once
I find enough free time and enough additional budged.

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>wrote:
> 
> > How difficult would it be to get Xilinx Zynq devices supported?
> > I'm not too scared to write a couple of IO-Controller drivers, but have
> > no clue about the required work for the dual-core A9.
> > I'm asking because Adapteva (http://www.adapteva.com/) has annouced
> > a rather low cost board with their own coprocessing multicore CPU based
> > on a Zync-7010 device.
> > I like their own multicore CPU design, but even without it the Zynq with
> > Gbit/s Ethernet and 1GB RAM and FPGA should make a good gerneric platform.
> > The USD99 price was for crowdfunding, but they target a similar low price
> > for normal sales.
> > Until Adapteva has boards available the lowest priced Zynq board seems
> > to be the ZedBoard (http://www.zedboard.org/).
> >
> > --
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> aleek
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