Re: Looking for suggestions for small, low power machine

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:01:27PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has tried one of these:
> 
> http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrmx/index.html
> 
> (The JRMX model).
> 
> Or if not, maybe something similar.
> 
> I'm looking for a small, low power machine to run NetBSD/i386 (or
> amd64 if there is a suitable machine) to be a DHCP server, netboot
> server for a few diskless machines (performance doesn't matter), and
> maybe a few other minor things. It doesn't need wifi, but it wouldn't
> hurt to have it.

AFAIK the xcore86 is a Vortex86MX. I have two boards based on the
Vortex86 (one of them looking a lot like the JRMX above - so close that it's
probably the same), -current runs fine on it (including hd controller and
ethernet). I couldn't het the SD card reader to work (but even the BIOS
can't handle it, it seems).

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