Any AVILA / CAMBRIA users?
Eddy Petrișor
eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 18:34:16 UTC 2017
2017-10-23 22:22 GMT+03:00 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>:
> Is anybody still using the IXP425 systems on FreeBSD? Do you expect to run
> FreeBSD 12 on them?
>
> I'm asking because it seems support for them is dangerously decayed and
> likely wouldn't work. These are old systems, EOLd back in 2009. There's
> issues with the boot loader, and it's unclear if a kernel for these boards
> would still work (the boards have only 64MB of RAM, which puts them at the
> extreme low end of what can run FreeBSD without expert tuning of the
> kernel). A couple of years ago, I know we had one user, but I'm not sure
> that he's still using the board. The niche market for these boards was
> wifi, but the standard have evolved since then and there's no relevant
> hardware available for an upgrade.
Isn't the Linksys NSLU2 also using the ixp425?
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