Subject: Re: AVM Fritzbox [was: Re: meshcube owners (poll)]
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 08/09/2006 11:05:19
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> While there: What's the chance of getting NetBSD ported to a AVM
>>> Fritzbox? The hardware is a TI Avalanche MIPS SoC w/ an AR7, ethernet
>>> is realized via ADMtek AMD9660; USB, DSL, POTS and ISDN are included
>>> on the SoC, and the system has 32MB RAM and 8MB flash. Linux-Sources
>>> and lots of information [1] is available, but I lack the hacking
>>> skills... :(
>>
>> If it doesn't exist in NetBSD, it can probably be reasonably done if
>> hardware and docs are available.  I might be willing to do it if there
>> is sufficient interest and someone donates some hardware to me.  Without
>> funding though, it will take a backseat to the projects that folks are
>> paying me for. :-)  So I can't state a specific timeline.
>
> The hardware's <200EUR, so I think it should be possible to get that
> for you. Documentation... No idea what you would need there, see the
> URLs in my previous mail.
>
> Any takers for buying an AVM Fritzbox for Garrett? :-)
>
>
>  - Hubert

I saw the docs.  Linux runs on it, so it shouldn't be too difficult. 
Again, this would be a low priority project for me.  Something for folks
thinking of laying out a few hundred Euro to consider. 

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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