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- Add 2013Q4 status reports on recent ARM developments

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<!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 2 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 4 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
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<description>Projects</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>arch</name>
<description>Architectures</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>bin</name>
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place and have streamlined the migration process.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os; on Cubieboard{1,2}</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ganbold</given>
<common>Tsagaankhuu</common>
</name>
<email>ganbold@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://github.com/tsgan/allwinner_a10/blob/master/if_emac.c">EMAC driver code</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Cubieboard is a single-board computer, based on the AllWinner
A10 SoC, popular on cheap tablets, phones and media PCs. The
second version enhances the board mainly by replacing the
AllWinner A10 SoC with an AllWinner A20 which contains 2 ARM
Cortex-A7 MPCore CPUs and 2 Mali-400 GPUs (Mali-400MP2). In the
last few months, the work has continued on their &os; port, and
some work was done on the EMAC 10/100 Ethernet driver (see
link). The driver now is in a good shape, however the RX side
is very slow and there is need to have external DMA driver that
can be used in this case.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os; on Newer ARM Boards</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ganbold</given>
<common>Tsagaankhuu</common>
</name>
<email>ganbold@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Radxa%20Rock">&os; on Radxa Rock</url>
<url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256949"/>
<url href="https://github.com/tsgan/qualcomm">Some preliminary sources for Snapdragon board IFC6410</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Rockchip is a series of SoC (System on Chip) integrated
circuits that are mainly for embedded systems applications in
mobile entertainment devices such smartphones, tablets, e-books,
set-top boxes, media players, personal video, and MP3 players.
Due to their evolution from the MP3/MP4 player market most
Rockchip ICs feature advanced media decoding logic but lack
integrated cellular radio basebands. Initial support of
Rockchip RK3188 (Quad core Cortex A9) SoC is committed to
<tt>head</tt>. Now &os; runs on Radxa Rock and it supports
following peripherals:</p>
<ul>
<li>Existing DWC OTG driver in host mode</li>
<li>GPIO</li>
</ul>
<p>Some work was also done the on initial support of Qualcomm
Snapdragon S4 SoC, featuring the Krait CPU, which is considered
a "platform" for use in smartphones, tablets, and smartbook
devices. Krait has many similarities with the ARM Cortex-A15
CPU and is also based on the ARMv7 instruction set. A minimal
console driver was written and &os;'s early boot messages can be
now seen on the serial console. The timer driver works too, and
the boot now stops at the mountroot prompt.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>