ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Russell Haley]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> 2017-09-23 2:36 GMT+02:00 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com>:
>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 2:03 AM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> At 05:47 PM 9/22/2017, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> Armada 38x support landed in the tree a couple months back.
>>
>> Solid-run makes one. Two, actually.
>>
>> We make one.
>>
>> 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).

Armada 7k/8k
armv7 emulation or aarch64?

> Best regards,
> Marcin
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