David Young wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:32:14PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
>   
>> It occurred to me that joel@carnat.net wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.current:
>>     
>>> Anyone ever tried that ?
>>> Anyone knows if the USB driver on the motherboard (or on the disk rack)
>>> makes it better depending on the brand/version ?
>>>       
>> It all depends on what kind of data you want to export, and on what kind
>> of disk you're doing that. USB2 cannot match the speed of modern (s)ata
>> disks, but the real issue is "will this make a real difference".
>>
>> I've been using a fairly modern ATA disk in a USB2 enclosure on an 
>> Athlon64 over nfs (heh) and it actually outperformed the aging disk
>> I had in the same machine on a 'regular' ata channel. It was more than
>> fast enough for my purposes - mainly media shares and assorted stuff
>> like my (pkg)src repositories. In fact, I moved most of my media files
>> to an USB2 disk being served by my Asus router[1], which really isn't fast
>> enough to saturate the USB2 bus - but for mp3s, the +/- 3 MB/s it *does*
>> pump out is good enough for me, and at a considerably lower power bill.
>>
>> [1] And yes, I want to have a NetBSD port on that one. (Open|Free)WRT
>>     stinks.
>>     
>
> Martin,
>
> Certainly a lot of people would appreciate NetBSD on 32-bit Broadcom
> MIPS chips.
>
> One of my Google SoC students, Ada Lim, began a port to the Asus WL-500G
> router, see <http://svn.cuwireless.net/svn/cuw/trunk/src/bcmmips/>.
> The port remains incomplete, but it's a start!  I don't know if Ada
> intends to carry on with the port.
>
> Dave
>
>   

Porting NetBSD would probably be a small effort.  Including support for
borgcom wifi in said port would notably _not_ be a small effort.

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