Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:59:46 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: looking for suggestions for a small router/appliance board/SoC Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonE00_9K%2BNoY5%2BveLvNzp0b6A9rEuZzuiwo29if3mPXHg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151022195740.GA65715@funkthat.com> References: <2EB47812-4744-48B5-BEBF-B2074D9EEA8F@jnielsen.net> <CAJ-Vmok4jbffVu-dc9anucTOYRcqR=M_%2BmNKNvqPG0uA%2B=pq%2BA@mail.gmail.com> <8B2138DA-A660-413F-B25A-D99398D587C3@jnielsen.net> <20151022195740.GA65715@funkthat.com>
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If someone's interested in finishing off the vertana work then let's have a chat with Rui and see if he's interested in a short term contract or something. -a On 22 October 2015 at 12:57, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > John Nielsen wrote this message on Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 13:48 -0600: >> On Oct 22, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrot= e: >> >> > On 22 October 2015 at 10:57, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: >> >> I???m working on a proof-of-concept for a kind of networking swiss ar= my knife. Can anyone suggest a board that meets the following requirements?= CPU arch doesn???t matter as long as it will run FreeBSD (Atom, ARM, MIPS,= etc). >> >> >> >> - Small form factor (SoC, probably) >> >> - Can support at least 2 802.11a/b/g/n adapters, prefer 3 (any combi= nation of chip-integrated and mini PCI-e slots. Prefer to avoid USB if poss= ible) >> >> - Has or supports at least 2 1GbE ports. Prefer 3-5 ports with switc= hing functionality >> >> - Storage not super constrained. Built-in storage (if any) can be sm= all (which I???m arbitrarily defining as less than 128MB) if there is also = an SD card slot or similar. USB storage will do in a pinch. >> >> - Has at least 2 free USB ports after meeting previous requirements >> >> - Serial port or header (or GPIO pins that can be used as one? Not t= oo familiar with that) >> >> - Low power consumption (within reason taking the above into account= ) >> >> - Low cost (again, within reason) >> >> >> >> I may just start with a PC Engines apu1d, but if there are boards tha= t are smaller, cheaper, have lower power requirements and/or have integrate= d wifi or switch capabilities I???d like to look in to them as well. >> >> >> >> I know that might be asking a lot, so I???m also open to any suggesti= ons that are most of the way there. Thanks! >> >> > The PC engines boards are your best bet to begin with. There's updated >> > ARM hardware from Gateworks but I don't recall if we ever got a port >> > fully working on it. >> >> Thanks for the pointer. Good to know the Avila boards boot. A Ventana bo= ard plus one or more expansion modules actually looks very versatile and ca= pable of meeting all my requirements (except maybe cost :). The Laguna boar= ds also look interesting, though probably not quite versatile enough for th= is particular project. Can anyone jog Adrian???s memory on the status of Fr= eeBSD on either of those Gateworks board families? > > I know that the AVILA boards work fine: > FreeBSD avila.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r283010M:= Sun May 17 10:16:08 PDT 2015 jmg@carbon.funkthat.com:/a/obj/arm.armeb/= a/home/jmg/FreeBSD.svn/HEAD/sys/AVILA arm > > I can't find info on the Laguna boards... > > There is a wiki page on that status of the Ventana board: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Ventana > > But, the PCI slots and second gige aren't supported according to that > page... > > So, if you're willing to spend as much money on a Ventana board, > I'd recommend going w/ the Netgate RCC-VE 4860... It has much faster > CPU, tons more memory and get better support by being an amd64 based > platform... > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 > > "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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