FreeBSD on the $9 C.H.I.P

[Emmanuel Vadot]

  Olinuxino-a10-lime works out of the box with -HEAD, this is the board I 
use almost everyday to work on A10.

On 2016-02-11 19:42, Kris wrote:
> Yep, that's what I meant. As long as we distinguish Allwinner naming
> convention from what is inside we shall be fine (although Allwinner
> tries hard to confuse people... as if ARM had not done enough :) )
> That being said I think support for Allwinner chips is worth being
> continued. They are cheap, quite robust, quite popular, and
> documentation is reasonably available (credits go to sunxi I must 
> admit)
> So enough talking, time to go down to basement, disconnect my old
> Olimex-A10-Lime and try to put FreeBSD on it.
> I do expect troubles as I am not convinced it will work out of the box
> (e.g. it is A10 but I can see there is A20_cpu_cfg (dual core) among
> files.allwinner, which does not sound right to me...). However I also
> see that some good soul put more sources in compare to 10.2 tree.
> 
> 
> On 02/11/16 10:45, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>>  The R here does not stand for the RealTime profile from ARM, it's 
>> just one Allwinner chip line.
>> 
>>  The R8 is basically an A13 which is basically an A10 which FreeBSD 
>> support, so it should be easy to port FreeBSD on the R8.
>> 
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:32:57 +0100
>> Kris <krisb at interia.eu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Werner,
>>> Basically there is interest (I am waiting for x2 CHIP boards, they 
>>> are
>>> due in March, but I think they will be slightly delayed).
>>> Before I get boards the only reasonable thing for me to do is to get 
>>> as
>>> much out of existing tree to see how it can be ported, but no actual 
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> Please be careful - there is no such a thing like Cortex A13. A13 is
>>> just a marketing name Allwinner gave to their product. And I believe
>>> CHIP put Allwinner R8 on their board (normally in ARM nomenclature,
>>> R=for deeply embedded devices, A=for applications, but again, it is
>>> Allwinner so you can expect anything from their naming convention).
>>> However R8 is indeed equipped with Cortex A8 core, for which I 
>>> believe
>>> some work has been done - see Allwinner A20 in repo - it has the same
>>> core if my memory serves right (it is even pin compatible with single
>>> core Allwinner A10 -> again Cortex A8 :)
>>> 
>>> Kris
>>> 
>>> On 02/11/16 01:07, Werner Thie wrote:
>>>> Hi all
>>>> 
>>>> is there any interest or work going on making FreeBSD available on 
>>>> the
>>>> $9 CHIP from nextthing.co?
>>>> 
>>>> Basically it's a Cortex A13, 1GHz ARM V7A with 512MB RAM, NAND flash
>>>> and a slew of peripherals, the datasheet can be found on
>>>> 
>>>> https://linux-sunxi.org/images/e/eb/A13_Datasheet.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> Werner
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Emmanuel Vadot