[talk] NetBSD on Hardkernel ODROID-C1

[George Rosamond]

MIke Nichols:
> 
>> Steven Kreuzer:
>>> NetBSD now runs on a $35 dollar quad core ARMv7 board that has 1G of RAM and gigabit ethernet
>>>
>>> http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_ported_to_hardkernel_odroid <http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_ported_to_hardkernel_odroid>
>>
>> I know there's been a lot of FreeBSD work on the ODroid also.
>>
> Good to know, I'm excited :D

Such a moving target with the arm hardware though.  I am going to need a
warehouse at some point as I accumulate.

>>
>> Daisuke Aoyama has Nas4Free running on it now, and it sounds relatively
>> stable.
>>
>> I've been frustrated recently with ARM stuff due to regularly flaky
>> microSD cards left and right.  I can't do anything remotely
>> disk-intensive on them without getting bad CRC errors, 'undiagnosable'
>> svn errors, etc.
>>
>> It seems only stuff using SD cards is consistent.
>>
>> g
>>
> 
> That's why the Odroid's use EMMC modules, which come with adapters so you write to them as microSD's, but they boot on the first run like embedded flash.
> 

So does the BBone Black and others.  I assume it will become (if not
already), pretty standard.. There's some issues with
"/root/copy-to-emmc.sh" script for the BBB which facilitates booting off
that as opposed to the mSD card, but it's a recent thread on freebsd-arm at .

g