I'm looking at the recent article on Soekris and very favorably impressed.

	"Setting up a Soekris 5501 with OpenBSD 4.2"  24 Sep 2007
	http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070924004901

The setup seems almost perfect, except that the AMD Geode seems to be
x86-based.

What corresponding non-x86 hardware options are common, recommended, or
even available ?

Regards,
-Lars

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Do you have any special reasons for not using x86-based hardware?

BR
dunceor

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VIA, Intel lo-comsumption, are X86-based.
You should go into the ARM world to get something like that, and you
will be disapointed, as it is much much harder to find something with
4 network connectors, serial, flash, pci, mini-pci connector, due to
the lack of products & manufacturers.

You may want to check the website of the manufacturers mentionned on
epiacenter website
(http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=39),
some of them have a very broad range of product, more than you can
easily find on the net.

Regards,


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I find only x86-based units there: celeron, amd geode, pentium, c3,
eden, TM8600, etc.

One ARM on the list, though.  But isn't ARM now under Intel, maker of AMT?

There has got to be non-x86 units out there, SBC or other, running  Cell
or Freescale or anything else.

Regards,
-Lars

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What is AMT?

Well ARM is not under Intel, Intel does ARM-processors just like
several others do (Atmel, TI, Phillips etc). ARM only licence their
technology and their designs and let others produce it.

The question is what are your goal with the system? Route, small file
server, entertainment box? Please explain your demands and purpose
with the system and people can help and identify what hw that could
suite.

Br
Dunceor

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http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/intel-amt/index.htm

aka "rootkit for everybody"


Route / filter as the Soekris boxes are often used.

-Lars

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I think AxiomTek has what you're looking for.
And if it doesn't, then either there is no such thing as you search,
or it's well hidden.

regards,


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Thecus N2100 has two ethernet, minipci, USB, serial. But although
it's low power, it's quite noisy (most of my fast arch boxes are
*far* quieter). Maybe it would be ok with a SATA<>CF bridge and
the fan removed...but then it really could use another ethernet
port or two. And it would be nice if it had something like the

I just noticed Commell LV-681 (socket S1 amd64; ati chipset)... it looks
quite expensive, though, and at least where I live, only a limited part
of their product range seems to be available (VIA/Intel CPU mini-itx
boards mostly - BVM list some of the others but weren't capable of


Freescale is a company, not a CPU architecture - looks like
they have designs using powerpc, arm, etc.

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indeed.  meaning it uses the same compiler and kernel as the most

why would you want such a thing?

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