VIA Sprinboard: Alternative to Raspberry Pi - working with FBSD CURRENT?

[O. Hartmann]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:52:18 +0000
"Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> from O. Hartmann:
> 
> > Recently,
> > I stumbled into this board, which looks promising:
> 
> > http://www.viaspringboard.com/products.html
> 
> > Does anybody know whether the offered hardware (chipse, CPU, WiFi
> > chipset) is supported by FreeBSD?
> 
> I went to that URL and noticed that the WiFi chip was Atheros AR9271,
> same as one I have and not currently supported by FreeBSD but maybe
> supported in NetBSD-current and Linux.
> 
> I couldn't tell on my own whether the rest of the system could run
> FreeBSD or NetBSD, but from Ian Lepore's response, it doesn't look
> good.
> 
> Better off with Raspberry Pi?
> 
> Tom


Well, as Ian suggested, there is this promising alternative
"Wandboard". The reason is I'm looking for something small and with
performance for routing/gatewaying and playing around with as micro
server. I'm not so convinced by the speed of Raspberry Pi and
especially it's amount of RAM available. Another issue is the 100
MBit/s ethernet NIC, Wandboard seems to come with (regretably only one)
GBit LAN socket.

I haven't finally made up my mind and any decission, Wandboard with
4-core CPU plays in another price region than a simple Raspberry Pi. At
this very moment, I have no comparison to any of them.

Oliver
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