Re: VIA Sprinboard: Alternative to Raspberry Pi - working with FBSD CURRENT?

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:00:53 +0100
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:55:44 -0700
Ian Lepore <ian_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 23:34 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > Recently,
> > I stumbled into this board, which looks promising:
> > 
> > http://www.viaspringboard.com/products.html
> > 
> > Does anybody know whether the offered hardware (chipse, CPU, WiFi
> > chipset) is supported by FreeBSD?
> 
> It's not currently supported, and apparently documentation for the SoC
> isn't available (the "support" tab on the WonderMedia site isn't
> selectable, never a good sign).
> 
> Boards that are comparable in price and processing power that are
> supported by FreeSBD to varying degrees include the BeagleBone, the
> Wandboard, and to a lesser degree, the Cubieboard (which has sketchy
> documentation, but a good bit of reverse engineering has been done to
> support it).
> 
> -- Ian


Thank you very much.

Oliver

Received on Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:01:01 UTC

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