[nycbug-talk] ARM NICs

[George Rosamond]

Pete Wright:
> 
> 
> On 12/11/13 10:59, Mikel King wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys - anyone know of any ARM boards that have more than on NIC?
>>> Checked around quickly last night and didn't find anything too promising.
>>>
>>> my plan is to run a super low-power board to act as a NAT device for
>>> some R&D stuff i'm doing.  figure it'd be a good chance to test out
>>> FreeBSD's evolving ARM support.
>>>
>>> cheers!
>>> -pete
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Pete Wright
>>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>>> twitter => @nomadlogicLA
>>
>>
>> Hey Pete,
>>
>> Would this work?
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/99-arm-based-pc-runs-either-ubuntu-or-android/
>>
> oh snap i forgot about that bad-boy.  that may be just the thing i'm
> looking for.  looks like the board is driven by this:
> 
> Freescale i.MX6 single / dual / quad core Cortex-A9 MPCore, up to 1.2GHz
> 
> 
> there seems to be initial support of a xylinx SOC using the cortex-a9 here:
> 
> http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications
> 
> this may be a winner...def seems like a fun bit of kit to hack on :)

maybe ping the FreeBSD arm@ list and see who's working on it.. .and
check the most recent crochet for support.

I'm *really* curious to know which hardware the pfSense people are
working on...

g