ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Marcin Wojtas]

2017-09-23 8:41 GMT+02:00 Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Jim,
>>>
>>> 2017-09-23 2:36 GMT+02:00 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 2:03 AM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> At 05:47 PM 9/22/2017, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We make a custom product based on the Armada 38xx and it was measured
>>>>>> at high 900 Mbps using a Buildroot Linux. I want to say 980 but the
>>>>>> engineer who did the measurements is away so I can't confirm.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, if this is a recommended SoC for network-related applications, what commercial boards that use it are recommended? And is there driver support for them in FreeBSD?
>>>>
>>>> Armada 38x support landed in the tree a couple months back.
>>>>
>>>> Solid-run makes one. Two, actually.
>>>>
>>>> We make one.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently russ.haley at gmail.com is employed by a company that makes one, though from his description it’s might be an Armada 37x0, and there isn’t any support in the tree for this SoC.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually about 3 weeks ago Semihalf did upstream support for the SoC.
>>> GENERIC arm64 config works on A3700 (brand new uart driver, network,
>>> usb 3.0 and 2.0, sata 3.0). What's missing is PCIe RC and SD/MMC
>>> driver.
>>>
>>> BTW. Armada 7k/8k family is supported as well now in the HEAD (uart,
>>> usb 3.0, sata 3.0, RTC). Missing features are network driver, PCIe RC
>>> and SD/MMC (last one shared with A3700).
>>
>> Armada 7k/8k
>> armv7 emulation or aarch64?
> Sorry, didn't mean emulation: armv7 or aarch64? That's one sweet
> Network Video Recorder with two Sata 3.0 and a 10 Gb nic...
>

This is quad Cortex-A72 Marvell SoC, you can read more here:
http://macchiatobin.net/

The chip has up to 4 Sata and 2x 10Gb  (and 4x 1Gb/2.5Gb).

Best regards,
Marcin