<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi All,<br></div><div><br></div><div>FreeBSD or OpenBSD on ARM/embedded question:<br></div><div><br></div><div>I’ve got a timer project, and was wondering if anyone had experience with RTC and BeagleBone boards?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I don’t need a battery-backed RTC, I just need to keep good wall-clock time when the machine is on. (I think the beaglebone SOC has an RTC in there somewhere?)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I’ve found *one* post from someone tinkering with a BeagleBone and RTC on FreeBSD,<br></div><div>https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/rtc-on-beaglebone.64802/<br></div><div><br></div><div>—-<br></div><div>Last project I did like this, I used a PcEngines APU, because the on-board RTC/battery works without any fuss. For this project, I need to power this from a battery so a PcEngines board is way too much of a power hog...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?<br></div><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div>Anyone have experience with other hardware/boards?<br></div><div>Thee project I’m doing needs:<br></div><div><br></div><div>- needs to run FreeBSD or OpenBSD<br></div><div>- needs to keep decent wall-clock time<br></div><div>- needs to have wifi (can do cheap/slow/weak USB plug type)<br></div><div>- needs to be powerful enough to run a *very basic* webserver and some light CGI (older beaglebone or rPi is totally punchy enough here)<br></div><div>- needs to have power specs similar to a beaglebone or RaspPi<br></div><div>- needs to have at least a hand full of GPIO pins<br></div><div>- Bonus: one or more i2c headers<br></div><div>- Bonus: hardware GPIO interrupts would be nice<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think a beaglebone is my best bet, but there are so many cool little boards out there (?)...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div>.ike<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>