Re: A single-board computer for NetBSD

[Staffan Thomén <duck%shangtai.net@localhost>]

Mike Pumford wrote:
> On 26/08/2020 13:12, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
>
> > My recommendation to the broader question of "router box to run NetBSD"
> > is the PC Engines apu2. This is a fanless system with a 4-core
> > amd64-compatible processor:
> I'll second this recomendation. I'm also using one as my gateway
> firewall. Currently running NetBSD 8.2-STABLE as an npf firewall.
>
> I've successfully rewritten the BIOS on mine using flashrom on linux and
> the brief test I did of the NetBSD version of flashrom suggests it ought
> to work. It does correctly identify the BIOS flash chip successfully.

Here's a third recommendation for the APU2 systems. They are very nice 
(although I am annoyed by the bios resetting my (real) serial terminal every 
time it hands over to the operating system, making the terminal go through 
it's boot-up reset cycle, but that's coreboot).

I'm also pretty sure that I updated the rom using flashrom(8) on NetBSD.

Staffan