svn commit: r280337 - head/sys/mips/conf

[Adrian Chadd]

On 22 March 2015 at 03:08, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 02:15:10AM +0000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> New Revision: 280337
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/280337
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add initial D-Link DIR-655 (A1) support.
>>
>>   This is based on the AP135 design - QCA9558 SoC, 3x3 2GHz wifi, but no
>>   5GHz (11n or 11ac) chip is available.
>>
>>   It however still has 128MiB of RAM, 16MiB of NOR flash and the AR8327N
>>   gigabit switch - so it's quite a beefy router device.
>
> Thanks for working on those guys Adrian!  I've always avoided these type
> of "small box" routers: few years ago their CPU would typically not being
> able to saturate even 100Mbit/s; recently they became powerful enough, but
> having to run OpenWRT made me always prefer to fetch some Mendocino-based
> board from the back-yard junk and install FreeBSD to get a decent router.

Heh, you're welcome.

The AR71xx and later CPUs have been able to do > 100mbit/sec for quite
some time.

> Good to know that soon I could simply get one of those small, fanless Gbit
> Chinese switches instead (and I'd probably run out of Mendocinos anyways
> by that time :-).

if_arge need some attention to improve throughput. I'm totally all for
someone owning that. :)


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