Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-11 Thread Jan Stary
There are a few Intel J1800 boards available for C$100 (not including RAM), but I have no idea how well they run OpenBSD, and most of them seem to have UEFI boot only. On an Intel J1800I-C, I had to upgrade the BIOS for a non-Windows boot. current/amd64 runs just fine since a few snapshots

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-10 Thread Bernte
On 09/03/15 00:09, Adam Thompson wrote: I'm looking for a very (physically) small (embedded) platform that can run OpenBSD properly, including at least: USB 2.0, ethernet, MIDI (presumably via USB), OK-to-good-quality analog audio out (can be USB), some kind of decent

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread Martin Schröder
2015-03-09 9:35 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Ratchov a...@caoua.org: The RasberyPi is said (search linux audio lists) to be unusable because of the poor quality hardware. There's additional hardware that is said to work quite well: https://www.hifiberry.com/ Best Martin

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread Ville Valkonen
On 9 March 2015 at 02:21, Bertrand Caplet bertrand.cap...@chunkz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey there, What about Raspberry Pi2 ? It's really cheap, nice CPU, ethernet and USB ! And I think oBSD would be alright on it :) I'm looking for a very (physically)

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
Martin Schröder wrote: 2015-03-09 9:35 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Ratchov a...@caoua.org: The RasberyPi is said (search linux audio lists) to be unusable because of the poor quality hardware. There's additional hardware that is said to work quite well: https://www.hifiberry.com/ This DAC get's I2S

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
Alexandre Ratchov wrote: If you know of a small, cheap, fanless, x86-compatible board available in Canada *that runs OpenBSD reasonably well*, please let me know. Otherwise I'll probably have to give the Wandboard a shot despite the slightly-too-high price. I failed to find this kind of box

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread peters
Alexandre Ratchov a...@caoua.org wrote: Have you looked at something like the Alix 1e or the Alix 3d3 from http://pcengines.ch/? The quality of the analog inputs/outputs is quite decent, and despite the slow CPU they are powerful enough to handle soundfont based synths like fluidsynth.

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 07:09:52PM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote: I'm looking for a very (physically) small (embedded) platform that can run OpenBSD properly, including at least: USB 2.0, ethernet, MIDI (presumably via USB), OK-to-good-quality analog audio out (can be USB),

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread peters
Alexandre Ratchov a...@caoua.org wrote: (In case it's not blazingly obvious, I want to try creating a replacement for a hardware MIDI synthesizer, but that can choose between soundfonts.) I failed to find this kind of box (tryed to build my synth as well). Most platforms I've found seem

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-09 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:02:23AM +0100, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: Alexandre Ratchov a...@caoua.org wrote: (In case it's not blazingly obvious, I want to try creating a replacement for a hardware MIDI synthesizer, but that can choose between soundfonts.) I failed to find this

Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-08 Thread Adam Thompson
I'm looking for a very (physically) small (embedded) platform that can run OpenBSD properly, including at least: USB 2.0, ethernet, MIDI (presumably via USB), OK-to-good-quality analog audio out (can be USB), some kind of decent storage (i.e. not USB!), and enough CPU

Re: Very-small fully-functional systems?

2015-03-08 Thread Bertrand Caplet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey there, What about Raspberry Pi2 ? It's really cheap, nice CPU, ethernet and USB ! And I think oBSD would be alright on it :) I'm looking for a very (physically) small (embedded) platform that can run OpenBSD properly, including at least: