Re: ***SPAM*** Re: Roadblocks to further widespread adoption of NetBSD in embedded systems (at least in my neck of the woods)

"Marcin M. Jessa" <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:55:09 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded
Organization eIT.no
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/27/2010 05:33 AM, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Rafal Jaworowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> FWIW: FreeBSD has recently grown an extensible NAND framework, which is in quite decent and usable state at the moment already (includes a full ONFI device system simulator):
>>
>> http://p4db.freebsd.org/changeList.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/nand2/...
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NAND#head-9a32aaa85046b2f9f9219e36ba34947ca47a4153
>>
>> Among the already supported are NAND controllers found in Marvell and Freescale devices.
>>     
>
> This looks promising.  Thanks for working on this.
>   
This is FreeBSD detecting NAND on an Avila Gateworks 2348-4 board [1]:

cfi0: <Intel/Sharp - 16MB> on ixp0
cfid0 on cfi0

> (I'll consider to port this to NetBSD oneday(tm).)
>   
Please do today!
:)


[1]: http://www.gateworks.com/products/avila/gw2348-4.php


Marcin