Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

[John Almberg]

> There was a discussion on this a few days ago. I happen to have one of
> these Atom based systems, a Shuttle X27D:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class  
> CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x106c2  Stepping = 2
>
> Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,P 
> GE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>    
> Features2=0x40e31d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,<b2 
> 2>>
>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>   Cores per package: 2
>   Logical CPUs per core: 2
> real memory  = 2137915392 (2038 MB)
> avail memory = 2086662144 (1989 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <Shuttl Shuttle >
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>  cpu3 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  3
> ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 4
> ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23
>
>
> This works nicely with FreeBSD (needs only a sysctl setting to hush  
> some
> messages on absurd temperature measurements - all onboard devices
> work).  One disappointing thing about it: the one and only fan in the
> system failed about after a week of continuous operation.

I can't find the discussion you mentioned, but this Shuttle looks  
pretty nice. You can't beat the price of these little boards. Thanks.

--- John