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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 22 October 2015 at 10:57, John Nielsen <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected]:/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." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
