Subject: Re: SBC / embedded board recommendation
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
From: Richard =?iso-8859-1?q?K=E4stner?= <richard.kaestner@kabsi.at>
List: tech-embed
Date: 12/19/2006 22:44:16
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 22:22, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> > I'm looking for an SBC or other sort of board for embedded use with
> > NetBSD. I want to build a custom dsl router in my spare time for myself.
> > The board has to have at least 2 Ethernet interfaces and enough CPU power
> > to manage 100 Mbit/s cleanly.
> > It would be great if there are ready to use boards including a case
> > and a power supply.
>
> http://www.ieiworld.com/
> http://www.advantech.com/
> http://www.acrosser.com/
> http://www.aaeon.com/
> http://www.ampro.com/
> http://www.icpamerica.com/ (iEi reseller)
> http://www.lannerinc.com/
>
> that should be some places to look.
>
> as of a few months ago AMD Geode GX3 support was rather poor:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-embed/2006/07/31/0000.html
>
> I haven't tried booting any -current or -4 branches since then. (the
> intel and VIA boards seem to be fine.)
some more possibilities:
http://www.soekris.com : net45xx, net48xx
http://www.pcengines.ch : WRAP
VIA:
running NetBSD current on CL10000 - board is fine,
whereas on a CL6000 I can't boot (seems a problem with video chip - did not
yet dig into)
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