On 2014-09-19, Andreas Bartelt <o...@bartula.de> wrote: > On 09/19/14 17:35, Chris Cappuccio wrote: >> Andreas Bartelt [o...@bartula.de] wrote: >>> I was thinking about getting one of these (hopefully low-power) >>> Supermicro boards: >>> Atom N2800-based: >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SCAA-L.cfm >>> Atom S1260-based: >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SBAA-F.cfm >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SBAA.cfm >>> Atom C2xxx-based: >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SRi-2558F.cfm >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SAi-2550F.cfm >>> Celeron J1900-based: >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/celeron/X10/X10SBA-L.cfm >>> >>> Does anybody have experience with one of the boards from above on OpenBSD? >>> >> >> The X10SBA is a really nice board, although the C2550 based boards look nice >> too. Per watt, the C2550 and J1900 are very competitive with the higher end >> Intel CPUs. The X10SBA will be closer in price to the APU than the C2550 >> based >> boards! >> > > I've become afraid of UEFI BIOSes since legacy mode doesn't seem to work > with all of them (i.e., ASUS P9D WS). > > Could you successfully boot a mainboard with one of the CPUs from above > on OpenBSD? Did you measure power consumption at idle?
The Atom C2xxx boards run OpenBSD fine. Only glitch I've noticed is the screen background goes red if you VT switch twice (ctrl+alt+f2 ctrl+alt+f1).
