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 >>
