> On Feb 28, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just for me to get an idea, how complex would it be to support Freescale > QorIQ such as the P2020 used in http://routerboard.com/RB1100AHx2 , or P4080 > or P5020?
Well, given that P5020 support is going in to FreeBSD mainline as we speak, at least on the P5020 front, if someone would like to bring over that codebase, it shouldn’t be immensely difficult. > > > These are the next version chip of what socppc supports already [1]. > > These chips are neat as they're fast, have ECC RAM and 3x PCI Express > controllers. The P2020 costs ~~50-70 USD, P4080 ~~100-40 USD, and P5020 > ~170-250 USD. > > Thanks, > Tinker > > [1] The current socppc [2] platform supports the MicroTik RouterBOARD RB600A > which runs the Freescale PowerQUICC MPC8343, > and the (now discontinued?) Thecus N1200 which runs the Freescale PowerQUICC > MPC8347. > The whole PowerQUICC series is being discontinued to be replaced by the QorIQ > CPU:s [3]. > > [2] http://www.openbsd.org/socppc.html > > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerQUICC#PowerQUICC_III >
