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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:45 AM

Hi All,
I have been using Soekris board for quite a while now, and have kept
an eye out on other vendors just in case. I recently re-checked
routerboard.com and found that they have a new product out (532) @
http://www.routerboard.com/rb500.html that says its a MIPS based
processor. I have used SGI equipment in the past, and it seemed to run
well enough, but I wanted to get some input regarding getting OpenBSD
to run on one of these as I have not ever used OpenBSD on SGI machines.

I guess my questions boil down to:

1> The docs state that this board can function at 2 - 3x the speed of
a SC1100 based Geode system? Can anyone confirm that? Seems that
Sparcs are usually faster than some of the Intels (or at least where).

2> Would I need to buy an SGI and get OpenBSD running on it in order
to compile the kernel, or will the GENERIC kernel work for this?

3> They have a daughter board available, that would add 6 nics. Any
ideas if this has drivers in current (or 3.7)? I saw a patch for 3.4,
but would like to avoid that if I can.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers,
Jess

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:45 AM

Begin <1119148246.757042.23790@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups. com>
On 2005-06-19, Jesse Charbneau <groups@thecharbneaus.com> wrote:
> 1> The docs state that this board can function at 2 - 3x the speed of
> a SC1100 based Geode system? Can anyone confirm that? Seems that
> Sparcs are usually faster than some of the Intels (or at least where).

Sparc != mips. I haven't checked routerboard but outrunning a geode isn't
exactly hard. They're built for x86 compatible low-power operation, and
don't have much cache, for example.

> 2> Would I need to buy an SGI and get OpenBSD running on it in order
> to compile the kernel, or will the GENERIC kernel work for this?

Dunno, might be that you can cross-compile from another OpenBSD box.

--
j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .

#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:45 AM

sgi and non-sgi mips can be miles apart. you won't be running openbsd
on this thing anytime soon.

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