Re: Raspberry Pi and 6.1 RC1?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130224204735.GU2359%edge.cmeerw.net@localhost>,
Christof Meerwald  <cmeerw%cmeerw.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 08:17:02PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <20130224184546.GT2359%edge.cmeerw.net@localhost>,
>> Christof Meerwald  <cmeerw%cmeerw.org@localhost> wrote:
>> >That would be my understanding - unfortunately, only the netbsd kernel
>> >is available from the official ftp site and I am a bit reluctant
>> >trying to compile a kernel myself. So my hope would be that subsequent
>> >RCs and the 6.1 release will also include the pre-compiled kernel.img
>> >for the Raspberry Pi.
>> I think that the changes to automatically build an image are kind of
>> intrusive to backport to 6. On the other hand, you can get a daily
>> image from the current builds:
>> 
>>      http://releng.netbsd.org/
>>              Daily binary snapshots -> HEAD -> YYYYMMDDHHMMZ ->
>>              evbarm -> binary -> gzimg -> rpi.img.gz
>> 
>> for example:
>>
>ittp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201302230640Z/evbarm/binary/gzimg/rpi.img.gz
>
>Thanks for the pointer -
>http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201302230640Z/evbarm/binary/kernel/netbsd-RPI.bin.gz
>is actually what I was looking for (although I had hoped that the
>corresponding file would also be included in 6.1rc1 as well).
>
>Anyway, my Raspberry Pi seems to boot with that kernel and the 6.1rc1
>userland.
>
>BTW, I did a quick unscientific performance test and only get around
>1.5 MBytes/s throughput for a ftp when running NetBSD on my Raspberry
>Pi vs. 9.7 MBytes/s when running Linux on the Raspberry Pi.

There is no DMA support yet for the usb driver. Once that is in place
we can compare.

christos