18 Mar
2012
18 Mar
'12
12:38 p.m.
We are using a supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 motherboard with Intel D525 as a
low-power, solar-driven (fan-less) router in our African installations
(e.g. www.ict4rd.ne.tz). Motherboard plus a NIC with 4*1GE optical (sfp)
ports routes ~700 kpps at ~20W under full load. There are a few papers
on it if you are interested.
We are using a small linux distro optimized for routing called Bifrost.
You can find the distro at
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/bifrost/
If you want to share your design, I could perhaps explore of we could
help you implementing it under bifrost?
On 2012-03-18 13:57, John Feist wrote:
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I was looking at a cheap replacement for a remote Jnos node and came up
with this suite:
Intel BOXD525MW Intel Atom D525@ 1.8GHz (Dual Core) BGA559 Intel NM10 Mini
ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
iStarUSA D-213-MATX Black Metal/ Aluminum 2U Rackmount microATX Server
Chassis 1 External 5.25" Drive Bays
Added 4GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM and a used SATA 80gb harddrive. Everything
less than $200
I could not find any intel Atom kernel configurations that addressed this
mobo but put enough together to come up with a working .config (tar.gz
attached). Probably needs more work and could use adjustment by someone
with more kernel insight than I have.
OS is Gentoo Linux with 3.2.11 kernel (kernel via genkernel with ramdisk)
The system is quite fast, passively cooled (the case fans are a little
noisy though) and like I said above fairly cheap.
If anyone jumps into the D525 Atom development, especially the kernel
config, please keep me in the loop.
73, JohnF
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