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Assume we have $1k to provide better NetPerf cluster infrastructure for testing the existing support of FreeBSD/arm, FreeBSD/mips and FreeBSD/powerpc ports. This premise may or may not be true, but assume, however, that it's there.

We're talking about the existing support. In other words, about a situation where a commiter wants to test his/her patch on ARM/MIPS and verify that FreeBSD is still booting.

Which boards would be the most beneficial for the project's developers?

While pondering the boards which we would want to buy, please consider:

1) UART availability – This must be either the normal UART port or USB-based port that works with FreeBSD. (The USB cable hooked up between the board and the FreeBSD PC must provide a valid working UART.)

2) Ethernet – similar to UART availability, the Ethernet port must work. The Ideal candidate has U-boot with Ethernet support, which can fetch the FreeBSD kernel over the TFTP and a FreeBSD port that can perform booting over NFS. (FreeBSD must support the board's Ethernet controller.)

This is not a list yet. These are only Candidates for now.

Architecture CPU Name Link Notes Price Power consumption (W) Ethernet ports
ARM Marvell Kirkwood 6281 1.2Ghz GuruPlug Server http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.aspx OUT-OF-STOCK / Prone to overheating? $130 ?? 2
ARM Marvell Kirkwood 6281 1.2Ghz DreamPlug http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx $160 ?? 2?
ARM Marvell Kirkwood 6281 1.2Ghz OpenRD-Ultimate http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-35-openrd-ultimate.aspx# Port could be fully tested $250? ?? 2
ARM TI DiVinci TMS320DM6446 800Mhz? Rincon GW2361 MultiMedia Platform http://www.gateworks.com/products/rincon/gw2361.php optional item (port in P4), expensive $425 ?? 1?
ARM ARM AT91RM2100 200Mhz KB9202 http://www.kwikbyte.com/KB9202.html slow, but popular; out of stock? ?? ?? 1
MIPS Atheros AR7161 MIPS 24K 680MHz(800MHz possible) Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro http://ubnt.com/rspro $80 ?? 2?
MIPS RaLink RT3052F Fonera 2.0N https://shop.fon.com/FonShop/shop/US/ShopController?view=product&product=PRD-022 ?? 1?
PowerPC Freescale MPC8544 RouterBoard RB800 http://routerboard.com/RB800 Somewhat expensive $359 ?? 1?

The list will go here once I obtain feedback from enough people.


This part of a webpage won't be a subject of eventual $1k grant.

This page may or may not have practical purpose. Fill the table if you want

This part of the web page is devoted for listing other potential candidates useful for FreeBSD development. Unlike the previous portion of the page, this part shows all boards which we're interested in. If you have an interest in a particular board and you'd like to make FreeBSD run on it, feel free to put it in the table below. Please put your name next to the board.

Contact person Architecture CPU Name Link Notes Price Power consumption (W) Ethernet ports
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