[nycbug-talk] ARM NICs

[George Neville-Neil]

On 12/11/13 15:27, George Rosamond wrote:
> 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...
> 

BTW At the moment I'm not working on any multi Ethernet ARM boards, just
Pi and BBB.  If such things come to exist I"ll definitely look at them
though.

Best,
George