Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 15:08:13 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ARM i.MX6 based Utilitie-Pro board supported? Message-ID: <20140518150813.7125ace8.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <537735A5.20001@passap.ru> References: <20140517105012.066af348.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <537735A5.20001@passap.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Am Sat, 17 May 2014 14:10:45 +0400 Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> schrieb: > 17.05.2014 12:50, O. Hartmann пишет: > > > I'm looking for a smart FreeBSD Router/Gateway solution based upon the ARM > > architecture. > > I'd wonder why it's ARM. I'd think that a MIPS arch is more appropriate > for a router. Well, I had once an ARM based computer and I like the architecture - but there isn't a strict prefrence (except that I would also prefere MIPS over Intel as I preferred Alpha over Intel in the past as I did with a DECstation (MIPS driven) over Intel based systems). Looking around, I find a lot of very small ARM vased SoCs with a very low power consumption but with still enough performance. I have no clue how a 4-core ARM with 1.2 GHz would compete against a MIPS based equivalent. I'm not bound to ARM. MIPS is also all right, as long as some of my requirements/wished are met. The "router" is just a synonyme for a bunch of aspects I have in mind when thinking of low power SoCs. if the same CPU performance and low-power consumption is met as a 4-core WANDBOARD does, then I'm fine with other architectures. But I'd like to have FreeBSD rather than Linux and this is what I'm concerned about. > > > One of the necessities ist the existence of two GBit NICs which are hard to find on > > most experimental ARM platforms today combinded with at least two CPU cores. > > I have a IMX6 based wandboard-quad with 1Gb NIC. It's theoretical > maximum speed is 40 MB/sec., while current driver achieves about > 20 MB/sec. I did not realise that the throughput is that low, theoretically. > > > I found the Utilities Pro board [1], four cores, two GBit NICs and WiFi along with 2GB > > RAM and I was wondering whether this board is supported by FreeBSD. I couldn't find > > anything useful since I'm a novice with ARM CPU naming and Utilities Pro is not > > mentioned in the list of compatible and supported ARM based equipment in [2]. Well, > > not being mentioned doesn't mean "not supported" since the components have to be > > supported anyway, but as I said, I do not know what Utilities Pro equipt to their > > solution. maybe someon of the FreeBSd users already made some experiences with this > > board/solution. > > You may find and get more info at the arm@ ML. > Thank you very much. regards, Oliver [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTeLDBAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8hewIAIEJltwN7ZniilqInnfg2TOx MZbcXwuMYZIfuTcCsXPckc21SZaEYpCja+FCYSth44/cPRCuy8FTjH6ME9rYrAZ9 01f63sg+08QMefFLYYtM/LVRjLNRjhtY/NV2KbdQyCZPMMQJrskAu5Z4TWZkLfF9 zWN3ezn6OP/0hJ7H3dOQh2+MC2TdxIK7a1efSP9f8b+AsZ5gBMU4HK9qE2cajnXo 4RSLlNL/pZGOOf9XCxQ3NXhRwuLaXtZijqCh8edUps0myTeNmqG1ghEUPumAQooz PXY8UmDCuhLDgp1W1HCBP1kDoYlCZCu3qMXZ7Ul+1oMQfgVlwI5D+FNf1hpgKCE= =Ehwq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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