ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Marcin Wojtas]

Hi Jim,

2017-09-23 2:36 GMT+02:00 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com>:
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>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 2:03 AM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
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>> At 05:47 PM 9/22/2017, you wrote:
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>>> We make a custom product based on the Armada 38xx and it was measured
>>> at high 900 Mbps using a Buildroot Linux. I want to say 980 but the
>>> engineer who did the measurements is away so I can't confirm.
>>
>> So, if this is a recommended SoC for network-related applications, what commercial boards that use it are recommended? And is there driver support for them in FreeBSD?
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> Armada 38x support landed in the tree a couple months back.
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> Solid-run makes one. Two, actually.
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> We make one.
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> Apparently russ.haley at gmail.com is employed by a company that makes one, though from his description it’s might be an Armada 37x0, and there isn’t any support in the tree for this SoC.
>

Actually about 3 weeks ago Semihalf did upstream support for the SoC.
GENERIC arm64 config works on A3700 (brand new uart driver, network,
usb 3.0 and 2.0, sata 3.0). What's missing is PCIe RC and SD/MMC
driver.

BTW. Armada 7k/8k family is supported as well now in the HEAD (uart,
usb 3.0, sata 3.0, RTC). Missing features are network driver, PCIe RC
and SD/MMC (last one shared with A3700).

Best regards,
Marcin