[nycbug-talk] ARM NICs

[Pete Wright]

On 12/11/13 13:44, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> 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.
> 

thanks for the heads up George!  I think I am going to purchase one of
these systems and see how it goes from there:


http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications


I'll also join the appropriate mailing lists if I do get this sucker and
hopefully contribute to getting better arm support for FreeBSD done :)

cheers,
-pete


-- 
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
twitter => @nomadlogicLA