Anyone in need of FreeBSD-supported MIPS hardware?

Fri Nov 2 05:48:00 UTC 2012

what's some router?

2012/11/2 James Jones <james.voip at gmail.com>

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> I am working on some embedded router projects and could use some. :)
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 1, 2012, at 9:30 PM, "Juli Mallett" <juli at clockworksquid.com>
> wrote:
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> > I have a large number of MIPS boards / systems that I'd like to make
> > available to interested developers who have clear goals for which
> > hardware would be useful.  I have some small and cheap RouterBoard and
> > RouterStation hardware for someone who's just looking to get their
> > feet wet.
> >
> > I also have a bunch of Octeon hardware from low-end to high-end,
> > mostly Octeon Plus (i.e. CN5xxx-based), but also a couple of Octeon XL
> > boards.  All of the Octeon hardware I have is SMP.  Some is very
> > esoteric and would require a lot of effort to fully support (but
> > sample Linux code should be available; in one case there is a vendor
> > that is refusing to release GPL'd sources, which I may ask the FSF for
> > help with.)
> >
> > I have a large number of Radisys ATCA-7220 boards which are varying
> > degrees of functional.  These consist of an e500-based LMP running
> > Linux (basically a host/management system), two Octeon CN5860
> > (16-core, high-end) units, each with 8GB of RAM, connected to a
> > high-end 10GbE switch, with a large number of SFP+ ports, which is
> > capable of acting as an ATCA switch as well.  I have two ATCA
> > chassises and can recommend ones that are available cheaply on eBay
> > for someone who is interested in adding something loud and overwrought
> > to their test setup.
> >
> > Each Octeon unit on the Radisys ATCA boards is a PCI target attached
> > to the LMP.  I have Octeon evaluation boards which can be used as
> > PCI-X targets or hosts, and a couple of Octeon boards which can be
> > used as PCIe targets or hosts.  In PCI target mode, the Octeon system
> > can be booted and debugged by the host and can be used as a
> > programmable, intelligent NIC running FreeBSD or a standalone
> > application.  FreeBSD does not support Octeon devices in target mode
> > at present, but it should be easy to do so (both for the host and
> > target), and I can put you in touch with people who have done this
> > before with FreeBSD if you have any questions.
> >
> > Some of the hardware I have can support USB, some can support SATA
> > disks, and some can only support CF.  Although the Radisys blades
> > provide a lot of RAM and CPU, to turn them into a MIPS package cluster
> > would require first solving some issues with their networking and
> > second providing network attached storage of some sort.
> >
> > If you're interested, please contact me privately.  I would prefer to
> > give hardware only to people who have some idea of what they will work
> > on and who do not currently have any MIPS (or at least not any Octeon,
> > if requesting Octeon hardware) hardware of their own.
> >
> > Also, if someone has 5u of rack space and a bunch of power and extant
> > 10GbE infrastructure, I can provide a 5u ATCA chassis loaded with
> > hardware.  I'm sure that would be useful in general for people doing
> > networking work with FreeBSD, as the hardware can very easily be used
> > to do real networking loads at 10GbE line rate, or as a simple traffic
> > generator, but it's also loud and hot and annoying.  ATCA is "fun".
> > (If anyone has a spare one of those nice single-slot bench-top ATCA
> > development kit enclosures, please let me know; I would be quite eager
> > to purchase or trade for it, or several if possible.  Or even just a
> > non-finicky single-board ATCA bench power supply.  "Carrier grade"
> > seems to mean that the tools involved are so complex and numerous that
> > several people need to be employed full-time to keep the thing
> > running.  I digress.)
> >
> > If you're interested in just a small project, too, I'm happy to ship
> > hardware out for a brief duration and receive it back.  The Octeon
> > stuff is generally kind-of fun because of all the interesting offload
> > stuff it has.  Why not add software RAID offload support to FreeBSD,
> > or create infrastructure for compression offload in the kernel to go
> > with our crypto offload?  I had a lot of fun working on using Octeon's
> > SHA offload to do BitCoin mining, and that's the sort of thing that
> > can even be done over SSH as a regular user.
> >
> > Anyway, I know there's a lot of developers out there interested in
> > FreeBSD on MIPS, and I'd love to help any and all get started.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Juli.
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