Am 25.03.2013 um 17:17 schrieb Chris Cappuccio <[email protected]>: > Nick Holland [[email protected]] wrote: >> >> The problem with ARM is there is no ARM reference platform. >> Every machine is significantly different than every other machine, >> technical details of how it is built are not published (why should they >> be? They aren't being sold as general purpose computers). >> >> I do not get the excitement over ARM. Sorry. Its "design" complete and >> total chaos at this point. > > There is maybe one sort-of exception to this mess: > > The openly documented Freescale iMX6 platform. > > http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX6Q&nodeId= 018rH3ZrDRB24A&fpsp=1&tab=Documentation_Tab > > It could stay around for a while. There is an open "laptop" > design built around it that looks like fun: > > http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 > > And a certain Dale Rahn even wrote support for iMX6 in a source > tree that could "drop in" to OpenBSD... > > If someone really wants to play with newer ARM stuff on OpenBSD, > try to find some iMX6 hardware, and start with Dale's improved > sys/arch/arm, sys/arch/imx and sys/arch/beagle
I have all that running on OpenBSD. I'm slowly sorting out diffs so we can get it (armv7, panda, imx) into OpenBSD without breaking zaurus. Without that constrain, I could basically just drop it in. I'd recommend one of the following, where I got the first one from: http://boundarydevices.com/products/sabre-lite-imx6-sbc/ http://boundarydevices.com/products/nitrogen6x-board-imx6-arm-cortex-a9-sbc/ Of course, there are other boards, even tablets and mini-usb/hdmi-sticks, but those boards are imho very good. > > Chris
