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.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 22 October 2015 at 10:57, John Nielsen <li...@jnielsen.net> wrote: > >> I???m working on a proof-of-concept for a kind of networking swiss army > >> 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 > >> combination of chip-integrated and mini PCI-e slots. Prefer to avoid USB > >> if possible) > >> - Has or supports at least 2 1GbE ports. Prefer 3-5 ports with switching > >> functionality > >> - Storage not super constrained. Built-in storage (if any) can be small > >> (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 too > >> 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 that are > >> smaller, cheaper, have lower power requirements and/or have integrated > >> 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 suggestions > >> 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 board > plus one or more expansion modules actually looks very versatile and capable > of meeting all my requirements (except maybe cost :). The Laguna boards also > look interesting, though probably not quite versatile enough for this > particular project. Can anyone jog Adrian???s memory on the status of FreeBSD > 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 j...@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." _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
