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Hardware specs for Sheevaplug: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=105758&tstart=0 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jason King<jason at ansipunx dot net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Mark Martin<storycrafter at gmail dot com> wrote: >> Now that the cat is out of the bag on the ARM port, it's time to see what >> hardware platforms we can try running on. Is anyone working on, or >> interested in working on, drivers for some of the prevalent ARM platforms? >> I'm noting that 88F6281 fairly commonly found and inexpensive (QNAP, >> SheevaPlug, etc). QNAP has expressed interest in supporting a porting >> project, so now would be a good time to think about making sure we have core >> driver support. It'd be nice if we knew what might be in the pipeline from >> this Sun/NEC collaboration (hint hint). > > The question is, are the companies involved willing to release the > needed specs (or are they already available online)? While we could > probably port any equivalent drivers from one of the BSD variants > (where those drivers exist), having the specs would be better. http://www.marvell.com/files/products/embedded_processors/kirkwood/HW_88F6281_OpenSource.pdf 140 pages worth of hardware manual. Not sure whether it is enough or not though. I do not have the actual hardware... http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit.aspx http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_hardware.asp?p_id=122 I'm in contact with Marvell and have applied for their "extranet". I'll pass along more details on detailed spec availability for these processors as I come across it. |
