You mean the i.MX6 SoC? Yeah, that one is limited to 540 MBit/s by design.

In comparison to the i.MX series the LayerScape models are supposed to be 
network processors. So, even though they have a tendency to fuck things up, I 
don't think they also do that on something that already worked with PPC for 
some time.

I have not yet run performance tests on the TWR-LS1021A.

\Patrick

> Am 05.01.2015 um 14:54 schrieb Diana Eichert <deich...@wrench.com>:
> 
> Do the 1Gb interfaces support real 1Gb/sec?  I know there
> was some arm h/w with 1Gb interfaces that would not run
> at 1Gb speed.
> 
> diana
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Patrick Wildt wrote:
>> 
>> Until recently there has not been ARM hardware that actually has more
>> than two Gigabit Ethernet ports.  As of now there are two options:
>> 
>> There’s the Banana Pi R1, which basically is a bigger Banana Pi with
>> 5 Gigabit Ports connected to a Broadcom BCM53125 Switch.
>> 
>> The BPI-R1, also called Lamobo R1 is based on an Allwinner A20.
>> There currently seems to be only minimal support for the SoC in
>> OpenBSD.
>> 
>> FreeScale has recently been working on ARM-based network chips.
>> They already had QorIQ network chips based on PowerPC and now
>> basically replaced the PPC core with an ARM one, keeping the „old“
>> peripherals.
>> 
>> They are be working on LS1 and LS2 SoCs of varying performance.
>> One of them is a dual-core Cortex A7, another one a Cortex A9,
>> a rather slow ARM11 and even a few ARM 64-bit cores.
>> 
>> As far as I know they already supply development boards[0] and
>> reference design[1] hardware for the LS1021A, the dual core Cortex A7.
>> 
>> That hardware is really interesting, but rather expensive and not
>> supported by OpenBSD.
>> 
>> \Patrick
>> 
>> [0]
>> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=TWR-LS1021A
>> [1]
>> http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/quick_ref_guide/LS1021A-IOTGS.pdf
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 10:41:14PM -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>>> I started entertain the idea of getting ARM based hardware for my new
>>> home firewall.
>>> 
>>> Are there ARM based consumer motherboards with Gigabit lan controller
>>> which can be used for home firewall hobby project? How close is armv7 or
>>> any other OpenBSD version of being fully functional on such hardware?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Predrag

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