It appears that no one has tried OpenBSD on this board yet, but the
prospect of a mini-itx board with 1G VIA chip and 4 Ethernet interfaces
for less than $200 was interesting enough to me that I bought one
anyway.
As the dmesg below shows, everything "just works". My only complaints
thus far are that the board seems to lack a OS visible hardware sensor
of any sort (though the BIOS does has an "emergency" shutdown
temperature setting) and the Realtek gigabit interfaces seem to take a
bit longer to auto-negotiate than most other modern generation network
cards seem to (5-8 seconds instead of 1-2 seconds). Other than that,
it is quick and seems to handle firewalling, web proxying, and mail
relaying duties without any appreciable load average or delay.
Dmesg output from a recent 3.9 snapshot kernel for a Phylon 627F-1G
motherboard with addon module AD3RTLANG with BIOS "optimized" defaults
is as follows:
OpenBSD 3.9-beta (GENERIC) #608: Sat Feb 25 13:12:29 MST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: VIA Nehemiah ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,MMX,FXSR,SSE
cpu0: RNG AES
real mem = 502833152 (491048K)
avail mem = 451727360 (441140K)
using 4278 buffers containing 25243648 bytes (24652K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(2b) BIOS, date 11/24/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xfb2b0
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdf84
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfded0/160 (8 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT82C596A ISA" rev
0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xfa00
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8623 PCI" rev 0x00
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8633 AGP" rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "VIA CLE266" rev 0x03: aperture at
0xe8000000, size 0x10000000
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
re0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: irq 5, address
00:30:18:b2:61:aa
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0
re1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: irq 10, address
00:30:18:b2:61:ab
rgephy1 at re1 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0
re2 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: irq 11, address
00:30:18:b2:61:ac
rgephy2 at re2 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0
uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 11
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 5
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x82: irq 10
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8235 ISA" rev 0x00
iic0 at viapm0
pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST3402111A>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 38166MB, 78165360 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives)
auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5 "VIA VT8233 AC97" rev 0x50: irq 5
ac97: codec id 0x414c4760 (Avance Logic ALC655)
audio0 at auvia0
vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x74: irq 11, address
00:30:18:aa:82:22
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 10: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0032
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask ef65 netmask ef65 ttymask ffe7
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
Keep up the good work...
-J
