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A project log for MiniBSD laptop computer

RetroBSD is UNIX running on PIC32 and this is a board I designed for it, evolving into tiny computer

jaromirsukubajaromir.sukuba 12/29/2015 at 00:232 Comments

Well, it's a long time since last update. Today, I sat down to my new board around PIC32MZ2048ECG064

and configured/complied/loaded LiteBSD system to run on it from internal RC oscillator

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4.4BSD-Lite build 0 compiled 2015-12-28
    jarin@plechac:LiteBSD/sys/compile/SDZL.pic32
cpu: PIC32MZ2048ECG064 rev A5, 200 MHz
oscillator: system PLL div 1:2 mult x50
cache: 16/4 kbytes
real mem = 512 kbytes
avail mem = 352 kbytes
using 18 buffers containing 73728 bytes of memory
spi1 at pins sdi=RF1/sdo=RF0/sck=RD1
spi2 at pins sdi=RG7/sdo=RG8/sck=RG6
spi3 at pins sdi=RB9/sdo=RB3/sck=RB14
spi4 at pins sdi=RD11/sdo=RD0/sck=RD10
uart1 at pins rx=RD2/tx=RD3, interrupts 112/113/114
uart2 at pins rx=RB7/tx=RB6, interrupts 145/146/147, console
sd0 at port spi2, pin cs=RG9
sd0: type I, size 498176 kbytes, speed 12 Mbit/sec
sd0a: partition type b7, sector 2, size 204800 kbytes
sd0b: partition type b8, sector 409602, size 32768 kbytes
sd0c: partition type b7, sector 475138, size 102400 kbytes
bpf: lo0 attached
WARNING: preposterous clock chip time -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

starting file system checks.
/dev/rsd0a: 2128 files, 13973 blocks used, 36242 free
/dev/rsd0a: MARKING FILE SYSTEM CLEAN
starting network
clearing /tmp
standard daemons: update.
Mon Dec 28 15:44:43 PST 2015


4.4BSD-Lite (bsd.net) (console)



login: root
Last login: Mon Dec 28 15:44:00 on console
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4.4BSD-Lite UNIX #1: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 PDT 1994

Welcome to 4.4BSD-Lite!

erase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C status ^T
Don't login as root, use the su command.
# 

This is more powerful system than previous one with PIC32MX - only 128kB RAM / 80MHz compared to 512kB RAM and 200MHz of PIC32MZ, not mentioning new OS, so I'm definitely going to employ this MCU on MiniBSD computer.

Discussions

pdrift86 wrote 01/05/2016 at 07:59 point

Please keep us posted. I really like your first version and especially the keyboard. Wish I had one of those for my project. I'm currently trying to use one from a HP Jornada.

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 01/05/2016 at 08:17 point

Thanks. The first keyboard is actually quite crappy, those are just telephone switches, but it has some amount of retro feeling. The HP Jornada keyboard looks much more professional.

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