OpenBSD/beagle

OpenBSD/beagle is an experimental port of OpenBSD to the BeagleBoard systems with a OMAP3530 and DM3730 chips using an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU.

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History

In May 2009 Dale Rahn imported code to the OpenBSD tree which added initial support to the omap35xx platform. The initial target for this platform was the original BeagleBoard system.

Current status

The current target boards are the original BeagleBoard and newer xM models, but support for both is a heavy work in progress!

Supported hardware

For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture, see intro(4/beagle).
• BeagleBoard C4 / xM
• ARM Cortex-A8 CPU.
• com(4) standard serial port.
• wskbd(4) keyboard.
• ehci(4).
• omdog(4) watchdog controller.
• omgpio(4) GPIO controller.

Devices that can be connected:

• None at the moment.

Getting and installing

Projects & bugs left to fix

• Finish USB support.
• Add support for the battery-backed RTC.
• Add support for the SD/MMC controller.
• Add support for the ethernet controller.
• ...

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