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<p>FreeBSD/ARM is a port of FreeBSD which aims to run
on the ARM architecture and hardware.
The project's goal is to provide support for the
architecture and hardware surrounding it.</p>
<h3>FreeBSD/ARM Hardware Notes</h3>
<p>Currently FreeBSD should work on the i80321 based Intel
devboards, which includes the IQ31244 and IQ80321 boards.
Support is still minimal, covering only the CPU, PCI-X bus,
em(4) Ethernet adapters, the UART and timer devices.</p>
<p>Minimal support for the StrongARM 1100 CPU is provided, but
only within the limits of what Simics emulate: CPU, UART and
clock. It is theoretically possible to boot on the Assabet board,
the one Simics emulates; no attempts, successful or unsuccessful,
have been reported.</p>
<h3>What Needs To Be Done</h3>
<ul>
<li>SATA support needs to be added.</li>
<li>Other devices, such as watchdog, i2c and bus should be merged
from NetBSD.</li>
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<h3>FreeBSD/ARM Related Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://tisu.mit.jyu.fi/embedded/TIE345/luentokalvot/Embedded_3_ARM.pdf">
Brief history of ARM</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm32/">NetBSD Arm/32 project</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Mini-Install guide</h3>
<p>&a.cognet; (cognet@FreeBSD.org) has written a mini-install guide for the
current FreeBSD source. It is
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~cognet/freebsd_arm.txt">available here</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ARM mailing list</a></h3>
<p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="
EMAIL">&#60;<a href="mailto:freebsd-arm-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-arm-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
or visit <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm">mailman interface</a>.</p>
<h3>What musicians say about FreeBSD/ARM</h3>
<p>With FreeBSD/ARM, you can enjoy the silence from running your
(embedded) computer. There's even a song of that name, "Enjoy
The Silence", by Depeche Mode:</p>
<pre>All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my ARMs
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm</pre>
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