Novena (ARM)

[Rhialto]

A certain "Bunnie" guy (famous from XBox hacking and other things) has
designed an open hardware computer and is doing a crowdfunding:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop

"Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer
closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care
about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all
the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire
OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features
that facilitate rapid prototyping. "

Given that it is ARM, would NetBSD run on it automatically, or isn't it
that simple?

-Olaf.

[Christian Koch]

Post by Rhialto
A certain "Bunnie" guy (famous from XBox hacking and other things) has
https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
"Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer
closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care
about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all
the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire
OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features
that facilitate rapid prototyping. "
Given that it is ARM, would NetBSD run on it automatically, or isn't it
that simple?
-Olaf.

It's not THAT simple, but it's pretty simple. Take a look at the snags the
Raspbery Pi throws at you. The fact that Novena is completely documented would
make getting NetBSD to work on it even simpler than most.

Thanks for sharing, looks pretty cool!

-Christian

[Matt Thomas]

Post by Christian Koch

Post by Rhialto
A certain "Bunnie" guy (famous from XBox hacking and other things) has
https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
"Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer
closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care
about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all
the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire
OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features
that facilitate rapid prototyping. "
Given that it is ARM, would NetBSD run on it automatically, or isn't it
that simple?
-Olaf.

It's not THAT simple, but it's pretty simple. Take a look at the snags the
Raspbery Pi throws at you. The fact that Novena is completely documented would
make getting NetBSD to work on it even simpler than most.
Thanks for sharing, looks pretty cool!

Compared to wandboard and other imx6 based platforms, it's quite expensive. I wonder why then just didn't use the Xilinx Zynq and combine the CPU and FPGA in a simple part. See http://www.parallela.org for a board like that.