On Apr 12, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Christian Koch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:22:00PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: >> A certain "Bunnie" guy (famous from XBox hacking and other things) has >> designed an open hardware computer and is doing a crowdfunding: >> >> https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop >> >> "Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer >> closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care >> about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all >> the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire >> OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features >> that facilitate rapid prototyping. " >> >> Given that it is ARM, would NetBSD run on it automatically, or isn't it >> that simple? >> >> -Olaf. > > It's not THAT simple, but it's pretty simple. Take a look at the snags the > Raspbery Pi throws at you. The fact that Novena is completely documented would > make getting NetBSD to work on it even simpler than most. > > Thanks for sharing, looks pretty cool! Compared to wandboard and other imx6 based platforms, it's quite expensive. I wonder why then just didn't use the Xilinx Zynq and combine the CPU and FPGA in a simple part. See http://www.parallela.org for a board like that.
