Development contribution for Allwinner Family (our first step)

[Ganbold Tsagaankhuu]

Maximilliano,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Maximiliano Eschoyez
<meschoyez at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> We are a recently born working group at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas,
> Físicas y Naturales (http://www.efn.uncor.edu/), Universidad Nacional de
> Córdoba (http://www.unc.edu.ar/) interested in technologies for education,
> from server configuration/administration to embedded systems.
>
> Marcelo Cebollada and me are the leaders of the group and we are leading
> students professional practices and final career projects.
>
> My first FreeBSD installation was 2.2.6 (1998), when I was a student.
> Today, we have several servers with different BSD flavors serving different
> services for the University. Our largest service over FreeBSD is a Moodle
> Installation (http://lev.efn.uncor.edu/). In the next weeks we will start
> working to have a FreeBSD mirror in one of our new servers.
>
> We started our embedded tour with the Mele A1000 (Allwinner A10). You have
> also seen mail from our students that were working with it (Mariano
> Lescano, José Ribodino and Manuel Ferreiro). They succeed embedding FreeBSD
> upon all driver limitations. Also, they could run FreeBSD on a Cubieboard
> in a similar way as Crochet does. Now, they are working on a tutorial. Of
> course, we want to contribute our experience.
>
>

Very cool.



> Now, we have a Raspberry Pi, two Cubieboard 1 and two small systems (
> http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/231118984.html).



So did you able to run FreeBSD on Amlogic SoC? Do you have patches?



> We are waiting the
> arriving of a  Cubieboard 2 and some QT960-A2 (
>
> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/TV-BOX-QT960-A2-Android-Set-Top-TV-BOX-1GB-RAM-4GB-ROM-HDMI-Allwinner-A20/1184857989.html
> ).
>
> Two other students are starting they professional practice in driver
> development. They will focus on Cubieboard 1 and 2, especifically in SD,
> NAND flash and Ethernet drivers.
>
> We want to know the status of Cubieboard drivers. Is anyone working on it?
> Do you have some suggestions about how to start? So, all your help would be
> very appreciated.
>
> We hope we can contribute to the FreeBSD Project.
>


That is very cool. There is #bsdmips channel in EFnet where committers and
other developers discuss about arm, mips, ppc etc. related developments.
As for Cubieboard(1,2) drivers I started to work on ethernet(emac) driver,
however it is not finished and needs some help from experienced developers.
Alexander Fedorov wrote mmc (SD) driver and it works nicely but it is not
in src tree yet. Iirc, Warner was interested in nand flash driver
development.
Some developers already have Cubieboard(1,2), Hackberry, Marsboard so once
you write a driver one can test it.
So get the HEAD src tree and start hacking :)

Ganbold



>
> --
> Saludos cordiales,
>
>       Maximiliano Eschoyez
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