ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 01:57:04PM -0500, Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
> 
> > So, how would I obtain an image for the Solidrun "ClearFog" board (whose
> > specs say it uses the Marvell ARMADA 88F628 SoC)? Is it supported by
> > any of the snapshots of 11.1-RELEASE or 12.0-CURRENT? Or would I have to
> > set up
> > a development system to cross-compile? If there's no SD/MMC driver (as
> > suggested
> > by some of the messages earlier in the thread), what media would I use to
> > boot
> > the system and as mass storage? Is there better support for the
> > "Macchiatobin"
> > board, whose specs say it uses a "Marvell AMADA 8040"?
> >
> 
> 
> I don't see where anyone has responded to Brett, (I was in Europe starting
> with EuroBSDcon for two weeks, so I didn't notice that the thread had gone
> stale without answering Brett's question.)
> Apologies if I missed someone else answering.
> 
> Solid-Run has some documentation specific to FreeBSD on the ClearFog,
> including build instructions for FreeBSD
> https://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:software:os:freebsd
> 
> That URL above has a link to pre-built images that Solid-Run has made if
> that's what you're after.
> http://images.solid-build.xyz/A38X/freebsd/
> 
> I booted pfSense 2.4.1 (not released, but based on FreeBSD 11.1) from USB
> on a ClearFog Base (with eMMC) yesterday.  ClearFog Pro works as well.
> We use a customized toolchain that started off as crochet, but the
> instructions on that page should serve to get you to freebsd -HEAD running
> from microSD.  Getting from there to FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE
> is simple.   Since arm32 isn't a tier-1 architecture in FreeBSD, I don't
> know what it takes to have RE make images for these boards.  I know I've
> given Glen Barber a selection of boards (arm and non-arm) to
> use in his efforts to make FreeBSD images for various boards, and if it's
> as simple as sending him a ClearFog, he only needs to hold his hand up.  I
> have about 20 of them sitting in my office.
> 
> Since Brett mentioned "mass storage",  I haven't tried the m-sata on
> ClearFog, but the m.2 SATA ports on our product based on the Armada 385
> work, so presumably the m-sata on the ClearFog also works.
> 
> The Marvell 8040 stuff is further behind.  It boots, but no interfaces, etc.
> 
> I'll be trying the espresso.bin board (Armada 3700) next.
> 

I can look into this early next week.

Glen

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