On 04/11/2011 02:51, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
Hi,
[Starting a new thread, added Ben Gray to the Cc: list]
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Arnaud Lacombe<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Nate Dobbs<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey<[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 21:05:54 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey<[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Nate Dobbs
<[email protected]> wrote:
10 year old core or not, the ARM is the worlds most widely used
processor;
Please read what I said correctly, I said "this ARM11 is obsolete"
(even if still used, for sure) ...
Clearly price is an issue for this device. What's so bad about ARM11
that it shouldn't be used?
If you read my original comment, I did point out the $25 price tag was
pretty much the only interesting thing. Now, what it has been designed
for, multimedia, is going to be handled by a closed-source binary blob
without datasheet, so let me turn back the question: what do you
expect doing with it ?
That's not turning back the question; that's a separate question. But
it's a good one. I don't really see it as a multimedia device. My
interest would be in little embedded agents in different parts of the
house, for things like measuring temperatures. I'm sure lots of other
applications will come to mind.
And yes, I'll probably use the supplied Linux port. But if a FreeBSD
alternative becomes available, I'd certainly prefer that.
Greg
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I agree with groggy, something I'd personally use it for is a small SSH
server to allow a pinhole into my home network. It would serve as a very
good replacement for the mac mini that's sitting in my DMZ simply handling
connections for my SSH tunnel so I can bypass the proxy at work.
Power savings would be significant and it would be plenty powerful to handle
this task. A small webcam server comes to mind as well; there could be
plenty of useful things I could think of outside the realm of multimedia.
you certainly want:
http://beagleboard.org/bone
$89, 700MHz Cortex A8, 256MB DRR2, micro-SD. However, do not expect
being able to run FreeBSD on it before a few years :)
actually, some initial work has been started by Ben Gray:
http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard-freebsd/
and
https://gitorious.org/+freebsd-omap-team/freebsd/freebsd-omap/
- Arnaud
Hi, while it's true that I've done some initial porting work to the
beagleboard and pandaboard it's not entirely ready to go. The port
contains many hacks and bits of uglyness (is that a word?), anyway just
a warning, you can take that code and boot a kernel but userspace tends
to crash, which makes the whole thing pretty useless. Also the code is
written for the beagleboard and pandaboard, not the beaglebone, which
contains a different lower spec SoC, however I expect a lot of
components are similar and therefore I imagine most of the drivers could
be reused.
The bright news - I was recently contacted by a bloke called Oliver
Houchard who has picked up my code and started merging it into the
armv6/7 branch. Once that is done and debugged I think the support
should be pretty good and should in theory work directly out of the box
(svn).
Cheers, Ben.
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