I'm about to purchase a new Supermicro Atom board for a firewall. The decision is between Atom C2750 (Avoton) and C2758 (Rangeley) CPUs. The latter is marketed as a "communications processor" and exchanges Turbo Boost for QuickAssist, which seems to be an FPGA-type thing for accelerating certain cryptographic and data compression functions.
Is there support for this in OpenBSD and does anyone have any practical experience with using this hardware for VPN, SSL/TLS, or anything else of that sort? I'm not sure whether the 2.4 -> 2.6 GHz Turbo Boost on C2750 will make any significant performance difference for a firewall, but I'd rather have that if QuickAssist is not supported. - Max
