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Subject: Re: SMALL FreeBSD capable board
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>    Soekris Engineering makes excellent boards. While they are based
>    in the states, they do have a reseller in Europe.

How much power does it use and at what voltage? the lower the better

>
>    I use a bunch at work for various tasks. Very reliable hardware.
>    They use various i386 compatible AMD Geode CPUs. You can give it

i DO NOT need i386 compatible. of course it won't hurt.

>    whatever sized CF card you want or attach a small hard disk. Use a
>    serial console to bootstrap and make sure you configure your
>    FreeBSD system to use serial console. Some also have one or more
>    PCI slots, useful for your GPIO/SPI interfaces.
>
>    HTH!
>
found /usr/src/sys/mips/conf/TP-WN1043ND

this TP link router is easily available and cheap.

no problem to build kernel and userland but are there any guide/text about 
how to boot FreeBSD on it?