Hi Tom, Thanks for offering.
I built a personal OpenBSD/socppc 6.5 release last year for my RB600A and continue to use it. I tried building 6.6 but found compiling clang infeasible on a platform with only 128MB of memory and PIO compact flash. I tried to improve the swap experience by adding an SSD but gave up due to problems with my miniPCI SATA card. So although I’m fond of the boards I do not expect to see further development on them. (That said, it should be possible in principle to compile a socppc kernel and use the macppc userspace; and if you or anyone reading would like the socppc 6.5 release, contact me off-list.) Regards the RB800, from what I understand these require significant effort to support as they use a substantially different PowerPC core from that supported by our powerpc code[0]. cheers, Richard. [0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126938500604186&w=2 > On 20/05/2020, at 5:20 AM, Tom Smyth <tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu> wrote: > > Hello Devs, > Thanks again for all your work on OpenBSD 6.7 > just checking if any of you would need / want RB800s, as per mail below, > > I also have 2x RB600s which at one stage did run OpenBSD PPC edition > if any dev want them contact me off list and Ill have them shipped to you > Thanks and stay safe people ... > 1 person non dev expressed an interest in them but I would like to > give preference > to those who work on hardware dev testing in OpenBSD ... if the boards were > in fact useful > Thanks > Tom Smyth > > On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 21:12, Tom Smyth <tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu> wrote: >> >> Hello >> does any OpenBSD Developer want some Power PC SBC the specs >> >> >> Product code RB800 >> CPU MPC8533EVTALF >> CPU core count 1 >> CPU nominal frequency 800 MHz >> RAM 256MB >> onboard NAND storage 512MB >> >> there are 4x Mini PCI slots >> and 1x PCI-E >> and 1 Compact Flash slots >> 3x 1Gb/s Ports >> >> >> they have a wide input voltage range for powering and can be powered via POE >> >> I have atleast 5x in stock and will ship them to any interested Developer ? >> >> https://mikrotik.com/product/RB800#fndtn-specifications >> >> -- >> Kindest regards, >> Tom Smyth. > > > > -- > Kindest regards, > Tom Smyth. >
