Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Ganbold Tsagaankhuu
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Lundberg, Johannes 
johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:

 Hi All

 Thanks again for all the replies.

 How is the support for A15 and how is Qualcomm to work with when it comes
 to porting?

 Thinking about this guy which is closer to what I want spec-wise..

 http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a15-krait/var-som-sd600-cpu-qualcomm-snapdragon600



I think IFC6410 has same SoC as above SoM and as for ifc6410 either mmc/sd
or usb ehci driver needed in order to boot FreeBSD into multi user mode.

Ganbold




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 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de
 wrote:

  On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:36:00PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
   On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough.
  All the
images are with the expansion board attached..
   
Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
  hardware
guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware
  bugs and
rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In
 other
words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences
  with
this?
  
   The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
   that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.
 
  If you use a prebuild module then you don't get much in touch with
  the freescale chip fropm the hardware side.
  On the other hand, there are countless iMX6 boards out there with
  schematics online.
  My recently bought Novena even came with printed schematics and they
  open sourced the HW design files as well.
  I don't think there are hidden surprises on the hardware side.
 
   For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
   the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
   of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
   limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.
 (But
   hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)
  
   You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6
 yet,
   but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
   imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
   video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it
 to
   an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers
 written,
   potentially, I haven't looked into it).
 
  Sounds interesting for my Novena.
  The one I already got are board only (with some FPGA breakout, ...).
  They have HDMI though.
  But I'm also awaiting for the one with case and LCD panel.
  Not to forget that I have a fairy EDM carrier with LCD already.
  That said I'v always wondered how much work is it to get the camera
  interface running, since the Hummingboards can connect to the RPi
  camera modules.
 
   Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
   it yet.
  
   -- Ian
  
  
 
  --
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
Hi All

Thanks again for all the replies.

How is the support for A15 and how is Qualcomm to work with when it comes
to porting?

Thinking about this guy which is closer to what I want spec-wise..
http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a15-krait/var-som-sd600-cpu-qualcomm-snapdragon600



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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de
wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:36:00PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
  On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
   Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough.
 All the
   images are with the expansion board attached..
  
   Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
 hardware
   guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware
 bugs and
   rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
   words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
   documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences
 with
   this?
 
  The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
  that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.

 If you use a prebuild module then you don't get much in touch with
 the freescale chip fropm the hardware side.
 On the other hand, there are countless iMX6 boards out there with
 schematics online.
 My recently bought Novena even came with printed schematics and they
 open sourced the HW design files as well.
 I don't think there are hidden surprises on the hardware side.

  For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
  the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
  of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
  limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.  (But
  hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)
 
  You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6 yet,
  but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
  imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
  video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it to
  an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers written,
  potentially, I haven't looked into it).

 Sounds interesting for my Novena.
 The one I already got are board only (with some FPGA breakout, ...).
 They have HDMI though.
 But I'm also awaiting for the one with case and LCD panel.
 Not to forget that I have a fairy EDM carrier with LCD already.
 That said I'v always wondered how much work is it to get the camera
 interface running, since the Hummingboards can connect to the RPi
 camera modules.

  Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
  it yet.
 
  -- Ian
 
 

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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
What I'm most worried about is the graphics stack.. Some companies don't
seem so keen on handing out specs.

On Thursday, January 29, 2015, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu ganb...@gmail.com
wrote:



 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Lundberg, Johannes 
 johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp
 javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp'); wrote:

 Hi All

 Thanks again for all the replies.

 How is the support for A15 and how is Qualcomm to work with when it comes
 to porting?

 Thinking about this guy which is closer to what I want spec-wise..

 http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a15-krait/var-som-sd600-cpu-qualcomm-snapdragon600



 I think IFC6410 has same SoC as above SoM and as for ifc6410 either mmc/sd
 or usb ehci driver needed in order to boot FreeBSD into multi user mode.

 Ganbold




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 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de
 javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ti...@cicely7.cicely.de');
 wrote:

  On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:36:00PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
   On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough.
  All the
images are with the expansion board attached..
   
Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
  hardware
guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware
  bugs and
rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In
 other
words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences
  with
this?
  
   The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
   that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.
 
  If you use a prebuild module then you don't get much in touch with
  the freescale chip fropm the hardware side.
  On the other hand, there are countless iMX6 boards out there with
  schematics online.
  My recently bought Novena even came with printed schematics and they
  open sourced the HW design files as well.
  I don't think there are hidden surprises on the hardware side.
 
   For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
   the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and
 lots
   of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
   limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.
 (But
   hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)
  
   You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6
 yet,
   but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
   imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
   video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it
 to
   an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers
 written,
   potentially, I haven't looked into it).
 
  Sounds interesting for my Novena.
  The one I already got are board only (with some FPGA breakout, ...).
  They have HDMI though.
  But I'm also awaiting for the one with case and LCD panel.
  Not to forget that I have a fairy EDM carrier with LCD already.
  That said I'v always wondered how much work is it to get the camera
  interface running, since the Hummingboards can connect to the RPi
  camera modules.
 
   Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
   it yet.
  
   -- Ian
  
  
 
  --
  B.Walter be...@bwct.de javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','be...@bwct.de');
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Andrew Turner
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:27:08 +0900
Lundberg, Johannes johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:

 What I'm most worried about is the graphics stack.. Some companies
 don't seem so keen on handing out specs.

The only ARM vendor I know that has released documentation on their 3D
hardware is Broadcom [1]. The only options for this are the Raspberry
Pi or one of the mobile phones with a Broadcom CPU. I neither option to
be applicable for your requirements.

Andrew

[1]
http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-AG100-R.pdf
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Ganbold Tsagaankhuu
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Lundberg, Johannes 
johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:

 What I'm most worried about is the graphics stack.. Some companies don't
 seem so keen on handing out specs.


I think you can check some open source implementations for those GPU
related things (only for linux maybe):

For Vivante:
https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki

For Adreno:
http://freedreno.github.io

For Mali:
http://limadriver.org

I guess they are mostly based on reverse engineering effort. I think you
can even ask about the statuses directly from the authors/maintainers on
some irc channel.

Not sure about Tegra or PowerVR.

Ganbold






 On Thursday, January 29, 2015, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu ganb...@gmail.com
 wrote:



 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Lundberg, Johannes 
 johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:

 Hi All

 Thanks again for all the replies.

 How is the support for A15 and how is Qualcomm to work with when it comes
 to porting?

 Thinking about this guy which is closer to what I want spec-wise..

 http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a15-krait/var-som-sd600-cpu-qualcomm-snapdragon600



 I think IFC6410 has same SoC as above SoM and as for ifc6410 either
 mmc/sd or usb ehci driver needed in order to boot FreeBSD into multi user
 mode.

 Ganbold




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 BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.

 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de
 wrote:

  On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:36:00PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
   On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough.
  All the
images are with the expansion board attached..
   
Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
  hardware
guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware
  bugs and
rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In
 other
words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences
  with
this?
  
   The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
   that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.
 
  If you use a prebuild module then you don't get much in touch with
  the freescale chip fropm the hardware side.
  On the other hand, there are countless iMX6 boards out there with
  schematics online.
  My recently bought Novena even came with printed schematics and they
  open sourced the HW design files as well.
  I don't think there are hidden surprises on the hardware side.
 
   For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
   the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and
 lots
   of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a
 known
   limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.
 (But
   hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)
  
   You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6
 yet,
   but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver
 for
   imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
   video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting
 it to
   an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers
 written,
   potentially, I haven't looked into it).
 
  Sounds interesting for my Novena.
  The one I already got are board only (with some FPGA breakout, ...).
  They have HDMI though.
  But I'm also awaiting for the one with case and LCD panel.
  Not to forget that I have a fairy EDM carrier with LCD already.
  That said I'v always wondered how much work is it to get the camera
  interface running, since the Hummingboards can connect to the RPi
  camera modules.
 
   Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much
 about
   it yet.
  
   -- Ian
  
  
 
  --
  B.Walter be...@bwct.de http://www.bwct.de
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:39:30AM +, Andrew Turner wrote:
 On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:27:08 +0900
 Lundberg, Johannes johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:
 
  What I'm most worried about is the graphics stack.. Some companies
  don't seem so keen on handing out specs.
 
 The only ARM vendor I know that has released documentation on their 3D
 hardware is Broadcom [1]. The only options for this are the Raspberry
 Pi or one of the mobile phones with a Broadcom CPU. I neither option to
 be applicable for your requirements.

On the other hand people still struggle when it comes to CPI on RPi,
because it is handled by the GPU.
I'm still not so sure about this Broadcom SoC.
This is the reason why I like that the RPi Camera header is also used
on the Hummingboard and the BanannaPi.
The Hummingboard is an iMX6.
The BanannaPi unfortunately is an Allwinner and their datasheets are
AFAIK chinese only and IIRC also under NDA.

The Novena crown funding included iMX6 2D/3D driver development for Linux
as a met stretch goal:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop/stretch-goals
https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
I don't know how much of the results will be useable for us, but at
least some people seem to have access to enough documentation.

 Andrew
 
 [1]
 http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support/videocore/VideoCoreIV-AG100-R.pdf

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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-29 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
How about GPU 2D  3D support for Vivante GC2000?

There seem to be some open source driver out there but its GPL

GPU acceleration for 2D and 3D is a must for us and if it is only a matter
of a few programmers time and effort we can invest in it.

Can there be any blocking things like proprietary software/hardware etc?


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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote:

 On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
  Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough. All
 the
  images are with the expansion board attached..
 
  Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
 hardware
  guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware bugs
 and
  rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
  words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
  documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences with
  this?

 The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
 that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.

 For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
 the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
 of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
 limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.  (But
 hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)

 You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6 yet,
 but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
 imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
 video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it to
 an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers written,
 potentially, I haven't looked into it).

 Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
 it yet.

 -- Ian




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System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
Hi

Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out there which
have best support for FreeBSD?

MEN
Variscite
Technologic system
Adlink
etc.

What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
2-4 cores
1.5-2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
~16 GB Storage
USB 3.0
PCB size about one to two credit cards.

I wish to minimize the amount of porting needed so I am very grateful if
someone has good insights in this area. And of course, it would help a lot
if it was a manufacturer who is willing to provide datasheets to make
porting possible..

Thanks!
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:27:31PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
 On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 19:32 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
  On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:52:52PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
   Hi
   
   Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out there which
   have best support for FreeBSD?
   
   MEN
   Variscite
   Technologic system
   Adlink
   etc.
   
   What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
   ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
   2-4 cores
   1.5-2.0 GHz
   2 GB RAM
   ~16 GB Storage
   USB 3.0
   PCB size about one to two credit cards.
  
  In that range I would go for a Wandboard.
  They are 1, 2 or 4 core iMX6 32bit with 512M, 1G or 2G RAM.
  The 4 core has SATA, which to my knowledge we don't support yet.
  They come with 2 useable SD-card slots - one on the module and one
  on a carrier board.
  Clock rate is 1GHz only IIRC and they only have high speed USB, although
  the newest carrier boards have some super speed wiring for future modules.
  
  TechNexion, the originator of that module system also has some
  x86 boards - some may fit your requirements, but those are at
  a higher price and bigger form factor.
  Tech Nexion also has iMX6 boards similar to the wandboard with
  different featuresets, but also at a higher price.
 
 You do get more for that higher price with the Technexion EDM modules,
 namely 1.2ghz chips instead of 1.0, and parts that are industrial and/or
 automotive temperature-rated rather than consumer grade.  On the other
 hand, you generally can't buy Technexion modules one at a time.  Last
 time I checked they were minimum order 10 pieces even from resellers
 like Mouser and Digikey.

Temperature rating - that can easily justify the higher price.

 Another small-board imx6 possibility is the Hummingboard from SolidRun.
 I now have freebsd running on a SolidRun Cubox-i4, so I expect no large
 drama in getting it working on other SolidRun imx6 products.  Gonzo
 ordered a Hummingboard recently, so we should know for sure some time
 soon.

To my knowledge they come in 3 different sizes.
I own the biggest two versions of them.
Completely forgot that the Hummingboard uses modules as well and the
modules are even very small.

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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
Thanks a lot guys.

I can specify a bit more details.
We don't need any sd-card, sata or external storage. Just the internal eMMC
is enough.
Display output can be DSI, LVDS or something that can easily be serialized
to transfer over 2 wires.
If WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 is on the board that'll also be great.
And of course, it would be helpful if the said board also is available as
development kit...

If the first tests are ok (tests can be done using Linux if FreeBSD doesn't
run out of the box) we're looking to buy a larger amount, at least 1000 to
start with.

We are flexible about prize and size of the board.

Atom is preferable over imx6, but I'll check out what you recommended.
Thanks again!

Ps. Hopefully we can also provide development boards for anyone who wants
to help with porting out of own interest.

--
Johannes Lundberg

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de
wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:27:31PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
  On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 19:32 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
   On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:52:52PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
Hi
   
Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out there
 which
have best support for FreeBSD?
   
MEN
Variscite
Technologic system
Adlink
etc.
   
What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
2-4 cores
1.5-2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
~16 GB Storage
USB 3.0
PCB size about one to two credit cards.
  
   In that range I would go for a Wandboard.
   They are 1, 2 or 4 core iMX6 32bit with 512M, 1G or 2G RAM.
   The 4 core has SATA, which to my knowledge we don't support yet.
   They come with 2 useable SD-card slots - one on the module and one
   on a carrier board.
   Clock rate is 1GHz only IIRC and they only have high speed USB,
 although
   the newest carrier boards have some super speed wiring for future
 modules.
  
   TechNexion, the originator of that module system also has some
   x86 boards - some may fit your requirements, but those are at
   a higher price and bigger form factor.
   Tech Nexion also has iMX6 boards similar to the wandboard with
   different featuresets, but also at a higher price.
 
  You do get more for that higher price with the Technexion EDM modules,
  namely 1.2ghz chips instead of 1.0, and parts that are industrial and/or
  automotive temperature-rated rather than consumer grade.  On the other
  hand, you generally can't buy Technexion modules one at a time.  Last
  time I checked they were minimum order 10 pieces even from resellers
  like Mouser and Digikey.

 Temperature rating - that can easily justify the higher price.

  Another small-board imx6 possibility is the Hummingboard from SolidRun.
  I now have freebsd running on a SolidRun Cubox-i4, so I expect no large
  drama in getting it working on other SolidRun imx6 products.  Gonzo
  ordered a Hummingboard recently, so we should know for sure some time
  soon.

 To my knowledge they come in 3 different sizes.
 I own the biggest two versions of them.
 Completely forgot that the Hummingboard uses modules as well and the
 modules are even very small.

 --
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
By the way, this is for an embedded mobile device so we are looking for
something more like

http://www.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/smarc/smarc-samx6i.html

instead of Wandboard which has all the connectors that we won't use.


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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Lundberg, Johannes 
johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:

 Thanks a lot guys.

 I can specify a bit more details.
 We don't need any sd-card, sata or external storage. Just the internal
 eMMC is enough.
 Display output can be DSI, LVDS or something that can easily be serialized
 to transfer over 2 wires.
 If WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 is on the board that'll also be great.
 And of course, it would be helpful if the said board also is available as
 development kit...

 If the first tests are ok (tests can be done using Linux if FreeBSD
 doesn't run out of the box) we're looking to buy a larger amount, at least
 1000 to start with.

 We are flexible about prize and size of the board.

 Atom is preferable over imx6, but I'll check out what you recommended.
 Thanks again!

 Ps. Hopefully we can also provide development boards for anyone who wants
 to help with porting out of own interest.

 --
 Johannes Lundberg

 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Bernd Walter ti...@cicely7.cicely.de
 wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:27:31PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
  On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 19:32 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
   On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:52:52PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
Hi
   
Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out
 there which
have best support for FreeBSD?
   
MEN
Variscite
Technologic system
Adlink
etc.
   
What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
2-4 cores
1.5-2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
~16 GB Storage
USB 3.0
PCB size about one to two credit cards.
  
   In that range I would go for a Wandboard.
   They are 1, 2 or 4 core iMX6 32bit with 512M, 1G or 2G RAM.
   The 4 core has SATA, which to my knowledge we don't support yet.
   They come with 2 useable SD-card slots - one on the module and one
   on a carrier board.
   Clock rate is 1GHz only IIRC and they only have high speed USB,
 although
   the newest carrier boards have some super speed wiring for future
 modules.
  
   TechNexion, the originator of that module system also has some
   x86 boards - some may fit your requirements, but those are at
   a higher price and bigger form factor.
   Tech Nexion also has iMX6 boards similar to the wandboard with
   different featuresets, but also at a higher price.
 
  You do get more for that higher price with the Technexion EDM modules,
  namely 1.2ghz chips instead of 1.0, and parts that are industrial and/or
  automotive temperature-rated rather than consumer grade.  On the other
  hand, you generally can't buy Technexion modules one at a time.  Last
  time I checked they were minimum order 10 pieces even from resellers
  like Mouser and Digikey.

 Temperature rating - that can easily justify the higher price.

  Another small-board imx6 possibility is the Hummingboard from SolidRun.
  I now have freebsd running on a SolidRun Cubox-i4, so I expect no large
  drama in getting it working on other SolidRun imx6 products.  Gonzo
  ordered a Hummingboard recently, so we should know for sure some time
  soon.

 To my knowledge they come in 3 different sizes.
 I own the biggest two versions of them.
 Completely forgot that the Hummingboard uses modules as well and the
 modules are even very small.

 --
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 08:28:58AM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
 By the way, this is for an embedded mobile device so we are looking for
 something more like
 
 http://www.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/smarc/smarc-samx6i.html
 
 instead of Wandboard which has all the connectors that we won't use.

Don't get confused with the wandboard module+carrier board, which is
the normal offer (and in small volumes often cheaper than the 10x
module pack).
The Wandboard module alone is extremly similar to the Kontron modules
in your link.
They don't have eMMC (maybe some of the TechNexion have), but they
do have a micro-SD on the module itself, plus SDIO on the module header.
eMMC can have a higher transport speed because it allows for 8bit instead
of 4bit and as soldered chip it has different issued than a socketed card,
but otherwise they are very similar in design.
The 2 and 4 core Wandboards have BT/WLAN on module, but it is done by SDIO,
for which FreeBSD (to my knowledge) has no support yet.

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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:28 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
 By the way, this is for an embedded mobile device so we are looking for
 something more like
 
 http://www.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/smarc/smarc-samx6i.html
 
 instead of Wandboard which has all the connectors that we won't use.

That's similar to the EDM module that wandboards use:

http://www.technexion.com/products/edm/edm-som/edm1-cf-imx6

You can buy the EDM modules directly from Technexion if you're willing
to buy quantity, or through resellers like Digikey.  The EDM modules
from technexion are compatible with the wandboard carrier boards, so you
can use a few cheap wandboards as devel and eval boards (or you can buy
the overpriced fairyboard carrier from technexion that has PCIe
connectors that wandboard lacks).

We're using these modules at $work, and that's basically the path I
took... I started with a wandboard and got freebsd running on it, and
once it got past the proof of concept stage (the minimum set of drivers
for the imx6 devices we need, and reasonable freebsd stability -- I had
a board running a stress test with 2 months of uptime) we designed our
own motherboards with EDM sockets on them.

-- Ian

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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
 Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough. All the
 images are with the expansion board attached..
 
 Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my hardware
 guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware bugs and
 rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
 words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
 documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences with
 this?

The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.

For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.  (But
hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)

You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6 yet,
but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it to
an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers written,
potentially, I haven't looked into it).

Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
it yet.

-- Ian


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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough. All the
images are with the expansion board attached..

Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my hardware
guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware bugs and
rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences with
this?

--
Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote:

 On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:28 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
  By the way, this is for an embedded mobile device so we are looking for
  something more like
 
 
 http://www.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/smarc/smarc-samx6i.html
 
  instead of Wandboard which has all the connectors that we won't use.

 That's similar to the EDM module that wandboards use:

 http://www.technexion.com/products/edm/edm-som/edm1-cf-imx6

 You can buy the EDM modules directly from Technexion if you're willing
 to buy quantity, or through resellers like Digikey.  The EDM modules
 from technexion are compatible with the wandboard carrier boards, so you
 can use a few cheap wandboards as devel and eval boards (or you can buy
 the overpriced fairyboard carrier from technexion that has PCIe
 connectors that wandboard lacks).

 We're using these modules at $work, and that's basically the path I
 took... I started with a wandboard and got freebsd running on it, and
 once it got past the proof of concept stage (the minimum set of drivers
 for the imx6 devices we need, and reasonable freebsd stability -- I had
 a board running a stress test with 2 months of uptime) we designed our
 own motherboards with EDM sockets on them.

 -- Ian



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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Lundberg, Johannes
How about these Tegra3 boards?

https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/apalis-arm-family/nvidia-tegra-3


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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote:

 On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
  Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough. All
 the
  images are with the expansion board attached..
 
  Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
 hardware
  guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware bugs
 and
  rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
  words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
  documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences with
  this?

 The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
 that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.

 For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
 the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
 of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
 limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.  (But
 hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)

 You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6 yet,
 but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
 imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
 video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it to
 an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers written,
 potentially, I haven't looked into it).

 Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
 it yet.

 -- Ian




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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:36:00PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
 On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
  Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough. All the
  images are with the expansion board attached..
  
  Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my hardware
  guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware bugs and
  rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
  words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
  documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences with
  this?
 
 The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
 that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.

If you use a prebuild module then you don't get much in touch with
the freescale chip fropm the hardware side.
On the other hand, there are countless iMX6 boards out there with
schematics online.
My recently bought Novena even came with printed schematics and they
open sourced the HW design files as well.
I don't think there are hidden surprises on the hardware side.

 For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
 the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
 of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
 limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.  (But
 hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)
 
 You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6 yet,
 but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
 imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
 video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it to
 an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers written,
 potentially, I haven't looked into it).

Sounds interesting for my Novena.
The one I already got are board only (with some FPGA breakout, ...).
They have HDMI though.
But I'm also awaiting for the one with case and LCD panel.
Not to forget that I have a fairy EDM carrier with LCD already.
That said I'v always wondered how much work is it to get the camera
interface running, since the Hummingboards can connect to the RPi
camera modules.

 Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
 it yet.
 
 -- Ian
 
 

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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:52:52PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
 Hi
 
 Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out there which
 have best support for FreeBSD?
 
 MEN
 Variscite
 Technologic system
 Adlink
 etc.
 
 What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
 ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
 2-4 cores
 1.5-2.0 GHz
 2 GB RAM
 ~16 GB Storage
 USB 3.0
 PCB size about one to two credit cards.

In that range I would go for a Wandboard.
They are 1, 2 or 4 core iMX6 32bit with 512M, 1G or 2G RAM.
The 4 core has SATA, which to my knowledge we don't support yet.
They come with 2 useable SD-card slots - one on the module and one
on a carrier board.
Clock rate is 1GHz only IIRC and they only have high speed USB, although
the newest carrier boards have some super speed wiring for future modules.

TechNexion, the originator of that module system also has some
x86 boards - some may fit your requirements, but those are at
a higher price and bigger form factor.
Tech Nexion also has iMX6 boards similar to the wandboard with
different featuresets, but also at a higher price.

 I wish to minimize the amount of porting needed so I am very grateful if
 someone has good insights in this area. And of course, it would help a lot
 if it was a manufacturer who is willing to provide datasheets to make
 porting possible..

Freescale is producting the iMX6 and they supply a hughe PDF for them.
Also the wandboard schematics are public available.

-- 
B.Walter be...@bwct.de http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Lundberg, Johannes 
johan...@brilliantservice.co.jp wrote:

 Hi

 Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out there which
 have best support for FreeBSD?

 MEN
 Variscite
 Technologic system
 Adlink
 etc.

 What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
 ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
 2-4 cores
 1.5-2.0 GHz
 2 GB RAM
 ~16 GB Storage
 USB 3.0
 PCB size about one to two credit cards.

 I wish to minimize the amount of porting needed so I am very grateful if
 someone has good insights in this area. And of course, it would help a lot
 if it was a manufacturer who is willing to provide datasheets to make
 porting possible..

 Thanks!
 --
 Johannes Lundberg

 Something like
http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/specifications/fitlet-models-specifications/
perhaps?

Though I don't think it is available yet, so I don't know if it is
supported in FreeBSD.

Best regards
Andreas
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Re: System-On-Module

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 19:32 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 06:52:52PM +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
  Hi
  
  Of all the low power, high-spec system/computer-on-modules out there which
  have best support for FreeBSD?
  
  MEN
  Variscite
  Technologic system
  Adlink
  etc.
  
  What I am looking for is a system with roughly this specs
  ARM or x86, 64bit if possible.
  2-4 cores
  1.5-2.0 GHz
  2 GB RAM
  ~16 GB Storage
  USB 3.0
  PCB size about one to two credit cards.
 
 In that range I would go for a Wandboard.
 They are 1, 2 or 4 core iMX6 32bit with 512M, 1G or 2G RAM.
 The 4 core has SATA, which to my knowledge we don't support yet.
 They come with 2 useable SD-card slots - one on the module and one
 on a carrier board.
 Clock rate is 1GHz only IIRC and they only have high speed USB, although
 the newest carrier boards have some super speed wiring for future modules.
 
 TechNexion, the originator of that module system also has some
 x86 boards - some may fit your requirements, but those are at
 a higher price and bigger form factor.
 Tech Nexion also has iMX6 boards similar to the wandboard with
 different featuresets, but also at a higher price.

You do get more for that higher price with the Technexion EDM modules,
namely 1.2ghz chips instead of 1.0, and parts that are industrial and/or
automotive temperature-rated rather than consumer grade.  On the other
hand, you generally can't buy Technexion modules one at a time.  Last
time I checked they were minimum order 10 pieces even from resellers
like Mouser and Digikey.

Another small-board imx6 possibility is the Hummingboard from SolidRun.
I now have freebsd running on a SolidRun Cubox-i4, so I expect no large
drama in getting it working on other SolidRun imx6 products.  Gonzo
ordered a Hummingboard recently, so we should know for sure some time
soon.

-- Ian


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