Any AVILA / CAMBRIA users?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Oct 24 18:42:43 UTC 2017


On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2017-10-23 22:22 GMT+03:00 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>:
> > Is anybody still using the IXP425 systems on FreeBSD? Do you expect to
> run
> > FreeBSD 12 on them?
> >
> > I'm asking because it seems support for them is dangerously decayed and
> > likely wouldn't work. These are old systems, EOLd back in 2009. There's
> > issues with the boot loader, and it's unclear if a kernel for these
> boards
> > would still work (the boards have only 64MB of RAM, which puts them at
> the
> > extreme low end of what can run FreeBSD without expert tuning of the
> > kernel). A couple of years ago, I know we had one user, but I'm not sure
> > that he's still using the board. The niche market for these boards was
> > wifi, but the standard have evolved since then and there's no relevant
> > hardware available for an upgrade.
>
> Isn't the Linksys NSLU2 also using the ixp425?
>

It is. Are you using one?

Warner


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