From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 19:49:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33A1C7E5 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x230.google.com (mail-qa0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7FFA787 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id m5so7358167qaj.7 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:49:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=cIWGEWKm6voEBkPib4K1bdbb2gL+CXklsmI4OuOGtr0=; b=WpDPvtVwKifyzhwZDKvrluE3IgWfrGDfezwk5jmJXKfwxQoeZCXvyMX3H4gMiguUyG sdLQp96fXL/LvbuoPenh7KnVwjuITW+uKNLOqXJUa/0rhqS0+BLGEo4Ar7Y75p1U3sdR YPNF9Q8yyJtULEKPl6Quq4Yr5BqVG4v0WoABLFr4McTMnrEi1KzTMSjRzp/Le2BMqhMj pLmN7+BCRgyGYeet0SJIduNlf8jeHunv41kBq/p0n61PgaJ8newDwGicBtkprc7wdRYX Nn2k25wsb21vyZCObap/snsu1wW6Wkh/HdoRdyG2RA28eZeSsk8oPE/MBwz2XzmHnbHj /rEg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.50.169 with SMTP id s38mr27788211qga.12.1394480962092; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.8.137 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:49:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140310191621.GB65259@cicely7.cicely.de> References: <20140310191621.GB65259@cicely7.cicely.de> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:49:22 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZIq6SguK9uQ18iwUf3IhWJto0M4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ARM platform for network router From: Adrian Chadd To: ticso@cicely.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Miroslav Chlastak , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:49:23 -0000 On 10 March 2014 12:16, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:50:31PM +0100, Miroslav Chlastak wrote: >> Hello, >> >> is there any box like ???alix/wrap boards???, that can be uset as router with ARM CPU? We are looking for a new platform with more power instead of Alix board. But every i386 platform is too expensive (when comparing to eg. routerboard). > > Take a look at the MIPS mailinglist. > IIRC some people have FreeBSD running on routerboard hardware. > And some even cheaper TP-Link (and noname) (mostly) Atheros based > router hardware works fine. > Most of them have small flash based filesystem space, but as many > have USB you can run a full featured FreeBSD by using USB drives. > Beside having an USB port you wan to look for at least 32MB or 64MB RAM. > For example the carambola 2 using AR9331 with 64MB RAM runs fine, but > unfortunately 8devices only wired 2 ethernet ports from the internal switch. > The Atheros chip itself has 2 NIC, with one connected to an internal > 5-port VLAN capable switch. > Last time I've checked however FreeBSD had no support to configure the > internal switch however. We can configure the internal switch now. I haven't tested vlangroup support on arswitch but it is supposed to work. > But you can get countless boards using this and other supported Atrheros > chips, just watch out for RAM, as there are boards with 8 and 16MB RAM > only. > Even without support to configure the switch you have 2 individual NIC. .. and I'll fix the arswitch problems if I can get hardware to test it out with. -a