Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:24:35 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any AVILA / CAMBRIA users? Message-ID: <027e0c63-9017-cb62-a6ba-1764a42a630c@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrtZ_qMRn_78CuT3oGAe7X2vpSfZYgHDxshYJzQZuqD-A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfrtZ_qMRn_78CuT3oGAe7X2vpSfZYgHDxshYJzQZuqD-A@mail.gmail.com>
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I do, and run a reasonably recent 12-CURRENT on it. This is my home wifi router. I think the bootloader stuff has never worked (I've never used it, anyway), so have no objections to deleting it. -Nathan On 10/23/17 12:22, Warner Losh wrote: > Is anybody still using the IXP425 systems on FreeBSD? Do you expect to run > FreeBSD 12 on them? > > I'm asking because it seems support for them is dangerously decayed and > likely wouldn't work. These are old systems, EOLd back in 2009. There's > issues with the boot loader, and it's unclear if a kernel for these boards > would still work (the boards have only 64MB of RAM, which puts them at the > extreme low end of what can run FreeBSD without expert tuning of the > kernel). A couple of years ago, I know we had one user, but I'm not sure > that he's still using the board. The niche market for these boards was > wifi, but the standard have evolved since then and there's no relevant > hardware available for an upgrade. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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