[9fans] interesting possible device

[9fans] interesting possible device

[ron minnich]

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mono.si

interesting because 2 10gig ports, some cat-v, usb, etc.

and open source u-boot drivers.

There's a youtube channel explaining hardware.

I realize it's arm,but, in many ways, still interesting

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Re: [9fans] interesting possible device

[Daniel Maslowski via 9fans]

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The platform is NXP Layerscape (i.e. former Freescale design, more
precisely, LS1046A), 9front supports NXP i.MX8.
I have no idea how close they are nowadays, but it could be that it means
little effort.

U-Boot is only partially open. I'd double-check regarding ethernet, if that
interests you. High-speed peripherals are often enough coming with blobs,
so if you want the 10gig ethernet... be prepared.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 23:07 ron minnich, <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> mono.si
>
> interesting because 2 10gig ports, some cat-v, usb, etc.
>
> and open source u-boot drivers.
>
> There's a youtube channel explaining hardware.
>
> I realize it's arm,but, in many ways, still interesting
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Re: [9fans] interesting possible device

[Matt Wilbur]

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As a Canadian that would come to $1,000,000 nowadays, I think…

NXP has their GitHub repo for OpenWRT (encountered it at work recently
helping a HW guy with an dev kit):

https://github.com/nxp-qoriq/openwrt

LS1046A is ARM A76

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/LS1046A.pdf

matt

On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM Daniel Maslowski via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
wrote:

> The platform is NXP Layerscape (i.e. former Freescale design, more
> precisely, LS1046A), 9front supports NXP i.MX8.
> I have no idea how close they are nowadays, but it could be that it means
> little effort.
>
> U-Boot is only partially open. I'd double-en check regarding ethernet, if
> that interests you. High-speed peripherals are often enough coming with
> blobs, so if you want the 10gig ethernet... be prepared.
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 23:07 ron minnich, <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> mono.si
>>
>> interesting because 2 10gig ports, some cat-v, usb, etc.
>>
>> and open source u-boot drivers.
>>
>> There's a youtube channel explaining hardware.
>>
>> I realize it's arm,but, in many ways, still interesting
>>
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Re: [9fans] interesting possible device

[Dave MacFarlane via 9fans]

Quoth ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
> mono.si
> 
> interesting because 2 10gig ports, some cat-v, usb, etc.
> 
> and open source u-boot drivers.
> 

If you find that interesting you might also want to look into the
Avaota A1 by Pine64.  The specs sound similar, but Pine has a history
of releasing an SoC and then releasing a device based on the SoC (ie
A64 -> Pinephone, Quart64 -> Pinenote) so there's a reasonable chance
it would give a head start on a..  something.  It's based on the
Allwinner T527, so some of the code from the A64 kernel might be
re-useable.

I bought one to play with after the 9phone is usable to get a
headstart in case they make a pinephone2 (3?) based on it, but I
haven't tried anything other than booting the stock android image and
making sure I could get output on the uart.

- Dave

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