I just deployed an OpenBSD 5.7 firewall/router/dhcp/dns using this motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157417 It uses the Intel Atom D2550 1.86GHz 2-Core chip and has dual 1000 Mbps Intel NICs on the motherboard. I am running the amd64 binaries on it and it's serving its purpose really well. Thanks, Bryan On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Josh Grosse <j...@jggimi.homeip.net> wrote: > On 2015-07-27 11:22, Quartz wrote: >> >> What's Intel Atom support like these days? I remember they used to be >> a little weird. Are they handled pretty much like any other x86 chip >> now or are some things still unsupported? Are they capable of handling >> pf on a saturated 100-base-t connection? How about gig-e? > > > > There's a huge range of Atom processors. Some are 32-bit only single- > core, there are models which are 64-bit capable and multi-core. There are > a wide range of clock speeds, cache sizes, and bus speeds. > > http://ark.intel.com/products/family/29035/Intel-Atom-Processor#@All > > I have an Asus 1005HA netbook with an Atom N270. As it's a workstation, > I can't speak to router performance. But the processor: single-core, > 32-bit only, has always appaered to be a "normal" x86. I just can't disable > HT in the BIOS. > > I don't have a recent dmesg available as I don't have the device with > me at the moment. Here's an excerpt from one I'd sent to misc@ a couple > of years ago that I just grabbed from marc.info. This one is GENERIC, > I normally use GENERIC.MP -- though to be honest, I do not perceive > a performance delta between the two. > > > OpenBSD 5.4-current (GENERIC) #93: Fri Oct 25 09:18:15 MDT 2013 > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60 > GHz > cpu0: > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI > \ > ,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,NXE,SSE3,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,xTPR,PDCM, > \ > MOVBE,LAHF,PERF real mem = 1064497152 (1015MB)
