Re: Developer board for NetBSD flash file system development

<[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:35:01 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ferenc Havasi wrote:
>Here in the University of Szeged (Hungary) we are developing a JFFS2 
>like flash file system for NetBSD (and the necessary flash layer for 
>it). As soon as we reach a usable version, it will be open - with BSD 
>license.

Great.

>To really test it, we need a developer board with real flash (now we use 
>flash simulator for development). Can you offer an ARM developer board 
>with FLASH, where it is not too difficult to set up NetBSD on that?

What type of flash do you need ?

For NOR flash, how about a TS7200 ?

<http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?tab=options&product=TS-7200>

>We tried DevKit8000 OMAP3530 Evaluation Kit, but after many tryings, we 
>are still not able to boot NetBSD on it.

What happens when you try to boot it ?

Robert Swindells