FreeBSD on the RaspberryPi 3

[Ganbold Tsagaankhuu]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 29, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
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>> At 09:03 PM 2/29/2016, Bernd Walter wrote:
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>>> I think the most interesting point about this board is that it is
>>> a rather inexpensive arm64.
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>> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> This one (the one in front) is basically a Beaglebone Black: http://i.imgur.com/plk1Iaf.jpg

Nice. I wish there could be an ARM board (with 2-3 Ethernet ports
(Gigabit or Fast Ethernet)) which costs less than 100$, maybe 50$-60$
but powerful and fast enough to do some SSL encryption/decryption for
small home network appliance.

Ganbold

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> 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.
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> With a bit of luck, I'll be able to show it running FreeBSD at ASIABSDCon 2016.
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> 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?
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> The Solid Run Clear Fog behind it (same as the first pic) certainly could, and should run FreeBSD (11-CURRENT) (*) before BSDCan 2016.
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> The CZ.net Router Turris board has the same Marvell SoC S the SolidRun ClearFog series, but can be had for $99.
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> https://www.turris.cz/en/
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> 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.
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> Jim
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> * and pfSense... There may or may not be a future Netgate board of ... (ahem) similar construction.
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