Is it possible to add more wired NICs to the APU? Alternatively, is there a comparably robust and OpenBSD supported low-wattage platform with at least 4 (and preferrably 5-6) NICs?
Thank you. On 24 Jun 2016 at 13:37, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > li...@wrant.com [li...@wrant.com] wrote: > > > > 1) How do the APU systems go as pricing to comparable systems from > > other similar (industrial class, desktop enclosure) manufacturers? > > > > The pricing direct from PC Engines is roughly 2x to 3x the cost > of certain cheap, popular ARM boards. It's on par or lower than > the pricing of the higher end ARM boards (some of which are supported > in the armv7 port) > > > 2) How is the OpenBSD experience on the APU systems, do they have serial > > RS232 console (serial BIOS), do they expose all the hardware to OpenBSD? > > > > Everything is exposed. The serial console requires boot.conf setup, > and Bob Beck recently fixed some aggressive behaviour in the boot loader > so that it no longer prints garbage characters on the screen during > the 'set tty com0' transition. Thank you Bob for spending the time to > track this annoying behaviour down ! > > Chris
