Looking for hardware advice

[Warner Losh]

The Atmel processors look good for this sort of thing.  I've recently found either the Glomation SBC-9G20u or the Pico SAM9g45 to be good and not too expensive (the former is $55 and the latter is $70, at least shipping to the US).  Although come to think of it the former runs on 5V.

Warner

On Sep 27, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorry, this is probably off-topic, but I couldn't find
> much useful information on the web.
> 
> I'm looking for a small board that's well supported by
> FreeBSD (head or stable/9).
> 
> It should ...
> 
> - ... be as small as possible (physical size).
> - ... be available to the public without having to order
>   a crate of 1000.  I need only one, maybe two.
> - ... work out of the box with head or stable/9, without
>   requiring a soldering iron, without having to patch
>   firmware with a hex editor and similar adventures.  :-)
> - ... run from a single power line, preferably 12V DC or
>   something like that, with as low power consumption as
>   possible.  I wouldn't mind if it could run from a bunch
>   of batteries either.
> - ... Support USB and some kind of wireless communication,
>   preferably Bluetooth (either built-in or via a USB-to-
>   Bluetooth adapter).
> - ... boot from flash (SD card, CF card or USB stick).
> - ... have a bunch of GPIO pins to play with.  Actually I
>   would like to port an old piece of software that used
>   the good old parallel port (in bit-bang mode), so I need
>   at least 12 or 13 I/O pins.  Alternatively I could use a
>   USB parallel port adapter, but I'm not sure if those
>   support bit-bang mode.  (And such an adapter would add
>   to the overall size, so I'd like to avoid that.)
> 
> I do NOT need ethernet, VGA, audio, and so on.  In fact
> I'll probably compile a kernel without networking support.
> Performance is not an issue, I don't intend to run number
> crunching stuff or folding at home.  ;-)  RAM should be
> sufficient to boot a stripped-down kernel with the modules
> and software that I need (Bluetooth stuff, a shell, some
> small programs).
> 
> Something like the Raspberry Pi would be cool (except that
> the Pi has many features that I don't need, and it's not
> supported by FreeBSD as of today).
> 
> Any advice will be appreciated!
> 
> Best regards
>   Oliver
> 
> 
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