Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

[Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>]

> On May 7, 2019, at 6:17 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Andrew Luke Nesbit <ullbeking%andrewnesbit.org@localhost> writes:
> 
>> For the same money as the APU2 you can get a real mainboard, one with a
>> much more solid construction and better performance.  Similarly with
>> many other SBC's in that price level.  If you look hard enough you can
>> get an entry-level serverboard with IPMI for not much more money.
> 
> Sure, but there is also "runs on small amounts of 12V".  I think often
> people want (I do) a low power machine that will cause zero trouble, and
> improvements in performance aren't that big a deal.   (I'm not entirely
> clear on apu2 power, but the Soekris boxes run on 12V.  They are of
> course unobtainable and by now very slow (net5501) or unreliable and
> slow (net6501), it seems.)

Hello,

The apu1c runs on 12V (I’ve used these) as does the apu2c @ 6W to 12W, that’s according to pcengines.ch. Unfortunately their 12V connector on the apu1c doesn’t seem to be the same size as any of the other 12V power supplies I’ve tried.

Thanks,

Jason M.

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