espressobin board

[Kim Shrier]

On Apr 12, 2019, at 3:13 AM, Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> 
> czw., 11 kwi 2019 o 21:18 Kim Shrier <kim at westryn.net> napisał(a):
>> 
>> I am venturing into the arm universe for the first time but I
>> have been using FreeBSD for decades.
>> 
>> I would like to build a WiFi access point that also has a few
>> 1-gig ethernet interfaces.  I have been looking at the V7
>> Marvell ESSPRESSObin board and adding a wifi module
>> to it.
>> 
>> https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-79-v7-marvell-espressobin.aspx
>> 
>> It looks like FreeBSD should run on this board.  Does anybody
>> have any experience with this or would you recommend a
>> different board?
>> 
>> I appreciate any enlightenment.
>> 
> 
> We added some initial support to the board, later extended by loos
> (not sure, however if everything done by loos was merged upstream). It
> should work just fine in HEAD.
> 
> In any way, the one thing missing, which may be a blocker for you, is
> lack of PCIE root complex support for Armada 37xx SoC...
> 
>> Kim
>> P.S. recommendations on WiFi modules also greatly appreciated.
>> 
> 
> Afaik, a bunch of Atheros mini-PCIE WIFI modules should work just fine.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcin

Thank you very much for the feedback.

Kim