Hi, I've been looking into upgrading my aging firewall from a pentium-m
running FBSD 4+ to something more recent.
Since I've stumbled over the net6501, I have tried researching it as
much as possible. My firewall is also my GPS strat-1 NTP server, UPS
monitor and DHCP server, among other services. Because I use a KVM to
switch VGA between servers, I am looking at a simple VGA solution for
the net6501. Options using the PCIe x1 are constrained by Intel's
crippling of the bus to version 1.0a - the AMD FirePro 2270 x1 is PCIe
2.1, the nVidia Quadro series is PCIe 2.0, and HIS ATI Radeon HD5450 is
2.0 (as well as doubling the power requirements). The onboard Atom E6xx
does include Intel's third tier graphics on the die, with separate pipes
to LVDS and SDVO outputs. Converting LVDS to VGA is a simple $30
problem. Does anyone know if the LVDS signal are exposed as pads or are
the balls not connected?
Additionally, looking at the EG20T datasheet, it appears that only UART0
includes hardware handshake signals ("8-wire interface"). The other 3
UARTS only bring out Rx & Tx signals ("2-wire interface"). This gets to
be a problem implementing a PPS NTP kernel which requires the handshake
lines, unless the console serial port is not UART0. Or the internal
video is available (and, obviously, the BIOS supports it, ugh).
Finally, there are 4 other USB ports implemented in the EG20T - are pads
for them available anywhere?
Thanks-
Andrew
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