Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 01:43:50 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <juli@clockworksquid.com> To: "freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite: coming (hopefully) very soon. Message-ID: <CACVs6=8Wcu8Zu06B%2BXdOyPXwTEFrRMif96i4ipWZUu2GpUWurg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey all, My EdgeRouter Lite will be arriving soon and I just snagged a copy of the GPL sources from Ubiquiti. Assuming I'm understanding what's here right, looks like the EdgeMax platform is Octeon-based, and should require only very, very trivial modifications to FreeBSD. The modifications made for linux suggest UBNT calls the board an "E100". It's $99 and dual-core CN50xx 500MHz. A little disappointed it's not an Octeon II, but that's hardly surprising. By far the cheapest Octeon system available and perhaps one of the best MIPS ones available given the price point. Should be a lot of fun. Note that for reference I know of major OEMs that produce boards with comparable specs that were looking for $300 each just a few months ago. These boards are a very fine bargain indeed, and FreeBSD supports most of what's on them, and it will only take about 10 minutes to get a suitable FreeBSD kernel put together with hardware in-hand. (I may not be able to do it until late January due to other commitments, but encourage anyone who has an EdgeRouter Lite in their hands to give it a shot. Just look at the changes Ubiquiti made to the Simple Executive to add their private board type, add an OCTEON_VENDOR_UBIQUITI (or _UBNT, I'm not picky) config option and add the board type and go from there in the same way that other vendors' boards have been supported. It's a great entry-level kernel task. The hardware is small and light, so I may take one with me in my travels and see what I can find time for, but it'd be very cool to see this supported in-tree as soon as possible.) Thanks, Juli.
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