Re: anyone ever try OpenBSD on a Geode GX CPU?

[Ken <krice@spy.suspicious.org>]

hey I have something you might be interested in then... check out
http://www.embsd.org/order/crypto.html  we have these in stock now in PCI
and MiniPCI versions... and they are supported under 3.0 which means ass
soon as we finnish up with 2.0 it'll be there...

we are adding some memory file systems and a few other goodies to it as
for the delay...

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Kevin wrote:

> Hi Diana,
>
> I have a small design here with a Geode GX 300MHz and
> it is a dog.  I have to blame the CPU because it makes
> a decent router but when I start encrypting packets it
> suddenly runs like molasses (sp?).  I would highly
> recommend using an encryption accelerator (as you
> indicate you might do) if you do IPSec over your box.
> The design we are using is slightly customized for us
> and is a small aluminum box with three Realtek
> ethernet and a notebook-style IDE header which we use
> a flash card in.  We run the emBSD dist straight from
> flash...  Using a memory filesystem is probably a
> better way to go.  For kicks, we will be trying this
> with an embedded Linux-FreeS/WAN image and see if the
> performance is still doggy (seeing if getting rid of
> IDE accesses helps any).  Anyone know of an
> OpenBSD-based RAMDisk image that compresses to 5-10MB
> that is ready to go?  There used to be a dist/file
> called kindofblue.tgz somewhere that was a ready
> OpenBSD RAMDisk image but I can't seem to find it
> anymore.
>
> For a design similar to the Allwell box, can I
> recommend Flytech?
>
> http://www.flytech.com.tw
>
> The NC-series boxes are pretty small.  As small or
> smaller than the Allwell box you link to and don't
> have all the video in-out crap.  Also, you have a
> choice of Cyrix?, AMD K-6 or 2nd gen Celeron.  The NC1
> or 2 I believe has onboard ethernet and 2 PCI slots.
> The power supply is external (is that the same with
> the Allwell box?). I have an NC2 (I think) and it was
> working great for a long while as my home OpenBSD
> server running Qmail, djbdns and being a kick-ass VPN
> (without acceleration I might add).  The onboard
> ethernet recently failed, it suddently no longer
> exists, but I don't hold that against Flytech.
> Hardware just sucks, period.  We shall see now how
> good their techsupport is.
>
>
> --Kevin
>
>
>
>
> --- Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to make a low power/low noise router and
> > I ran across the
> > following system.
> >
> >
> http://www.allwell.tv/Products/Set_Top_Box/set_top_box_0.html
> >
> > They use the Geode GX CPU's.  They aren't on the
> > i386 hardware page but
> > I'm thinking some brave soul out there has tried to
> > install OpenBSD on
> > one.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > diana
> Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions!
> http://auctions.yahoo.com
>

-Ken

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