Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:26:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Looking for hardware advice Message-ID: <201209271626.q8RGQ6nS011607@grabthar.secnetix.de>
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Hi, I'm sorry, this is probably off-topic, but I couldn't find much useful information on the web. I'm looking for a small board that's well supported by FreeBSD (head or stable/9). It should ... - ... be as small as possible (physical size). - ... be available to the public without having to order a crate of 1000. I need only one, maybe two. - ... work out of the box with head or stable/9, without requiring a soldering iron, without having to patch firmware with a hex editor and similar adventures. :-) - ... run from a single power line, preferably 12V DC or something like that, with as low power consumption as possible. I wouldn't mind if it could run from a bunch of batteries either. - ... Support USB and some kind of wireless communication, preferably Bluetooth (either built-in or via a USB-to- Bluetooth adapter). - ... boot from flash (SD card, CF card or USB stick). - ... have a bunch of GPIO pins to play with. Actually I would like to port an old piece of software that used the good old parallel port (in bit-bang mode), so I need at least 12 or 13 I/O pins. Alternatively I could use a USB parallel port adapter, but I'm not sure if those support bit-bang mode. (And such an adapter would add to the overall size, so I'd like to avoid that.) I do NOT need ethernet, VGA, audio, and so on. In fact I'll probably compile a kernel without networking support. Performance is not an issue, I don't intend to run number crunching stuff or folding@home. ;-) RAM should be sufficient to boot a stripped-down kernel with the modules and software that I need (Bluetooth stuff, a shell, some small programs). Something like the Raspberry Pi would be cool (except that the Pi has many features that I don't need, and it's not supported by FreeBSD as of today). Any advice will be appreciated! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd With Perl you can manipulate text, interact with programs, talk over networks, drive Web pages, perform arbitrary precision arithmetic, and write programs that look like Snoopy swearing.home | help
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