ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

Russell Haley russ.haley at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 06:41:42 UTC 2017


On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
Sorry, didn't mean emulation: armv7 or aarch64? That's one sweet
Network Video Recorder with two Sata 3.0 and a 10 Gb nic...

>> Best regards,
>> Marcin
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