FreeBSD on the RaspberryPi 3
Jim Thompson
jim at netgate.com
Tue Mar 1 05:24:44 UTC 2016
-- Jim
> On Feb 29, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
>
> At 09:03 PM 2/29/2016, Bernd Walter wrote:
>
>> I think the most interesting point about this board is that it is
>> a rather inexpensive arm64.
>
> I'm still waiting for a board in this category that has 2 GbE ports... or even one GbE port that can really, really run flat out at full capacity so that I could multiply it into more ports via a VLAN switch. Combined with the FreeBSD IP stack, this could be SUPER-useful.
This one has 3x GigEnet. One is connected to a switch, one to an SFP cage, one to a RJ45. http://i.imgur.com/4CUMXyv.jpg
It doesn't run FreeBSD, yet, but Semihalf just checked in a lot of work in for the SoC in Dec/Jan. So maybe soon. I don't plan to work on it much before returning from AsiaBSDCon 2016.
This one (the one in front) is basically a Beaglebone Black: http://i.imgur.com/plk1Iaf.jpg
Not the two (3, really) port switch. It's intended to be an open source (hw & sw) BMC. Thus the motherboard which serves as a dev platform for same.
With a bit of luck, I'll be able to show it running FreeBSD at ASIABSDCon 2016.
Maybe not fast enough for your (Brett's) wants though. I could certainly spin it into a small 2-port ARM board without too much effort. Internet of Things w/FreeBSD?
The Solid Run Clear Fog behind it (same as the first pic) certainly could, and should run FreeBSD (11-CURRENT) (*) before BSDCan 2016.
The CZ.net Router Turris board has the same Marvell SoC S the SolidRun ClearFog series, but can be had for $99.
https://www.turris.cz/en/
I could certainly bring the two ClearFog Pro boards and the Router Turris board I have coming (April) to BSDCan if someone wants to hack/test.
Jim
* and pfSense... There may or may not be a future Netgate board of ... (ahem) similar construction.
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