[OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

[Reginald Beardsley]

FWIW 

The Giada Cube N3 seems to run Solaris 10 & OI fine. Requires the gani 3rd party driver. I got one from Newegg to use as my Internet access node.  I measured ~25 watts w/ a single disk & 2 GB.  You'd need to do a bit of hacking to fit 2 disks though.  There are two SATA ports and the top cover is a flat perforated plate, so a pretty easy hack.  Not as low power as an ARM, but available today. The factory setup holds a single 9.5 mm x 2.5" disk.


--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Deano <deano at rattie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Deano <deano at rattie.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?
> To: "'Discussion list for OpenIndiana'" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 7:56 AM
> Whilst many of us would love to see
> an ARM port of OI and illumos, it's not
> even on the cards yet. 
> OI is more oriented to bigger systems and there is a
> considerable amount of
> effort to slim it down and port it to ARM.
> 
> Have you considered a mini-itx or pico-itx board? They
> would likely run OI
> (assuming drivers etc.).
> 
> If you do go with the beagleboard, I suggest a embedded
> focused distribution
> of linux than Ubuntu, just like OI its not really designed
> for the small end
> of the spectrum and there are some very nice embedded
> distros.
> Another possibility is FreeBSD on arm, FreeBSD zfs support
> is quite ahead of
> linux, so would probably make a better base and its also
> got some nice mini
> distro's ready to go :)
> 
> HTH,
> Deano
> deano at cloudpixies.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Ritorto [mailto:jacob.ritorto at gmail.com]
> 
> Sent: 08 February 2011 13:45
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?
> 
> Hi,
>          I was thinking of
> building a minimal low 
> performance/experimental zfs filer on a beagleboard ( 
> http://beagleboard.org ) or something similar with a
> 2tb mirror disk set 
> attached via usb and a serial console.  Are there any
> projects or plans 
> to compile/port OpenIndiana to arm?  If not, I see
> that Ubuntu already 
> works on beagleboard, so that, plus the Livermore
> zfs-on-linux port ( 
> http://zfsonlinux.org ) would perhaps do the trick for
> now, I guess..
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> thx
> jake
> 
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