On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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).
I've had no problems with a Garmin GPS 18 LVC feeding a PPS FreeBSD kernel via
the internal serial port's DCD pin on my 5501. Based on Soren's response, it
sounds like the 6501 is similarly endowed.
-Jed
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