Bruce,

This is Andrew Gray.  I am running an Alix-1C board with the CS5536 on it.
This board is very nice.  It's only about $138 and it has a good "standard"
clone AWARD bios that we are all used to (unlike say, the Soekris boards).
It uses only 5 watts and has everthing including 21 GPIO pins.
(except is doesn't have a Freebsd sound driver yet.  Also 3.3V SB audigy SB0090 PCI
sound cards don't seem to work in its 3.3V PCI slot).  It has  serial ports (COM1 & 2)
for debug and it has plenty of RAM. It runs at 500 Mhz, so it is fast enough to compile
a sound driver. (It takes about 20 seconds).  It has a 44-pin laptop IDE interface
(ribbon cable has smaller spacing), so you need a 44 pin to 40 pin adapter
cable if you want to run a regular HD, and you must power the regular hard
drive from SOME OTHER power supply.  ALternatively, you can put a 4 meg
compact flash in its bay, and just use it as a flash HD.  This works fine:

http://www.mini-box.com/Alix-1C-Board-1-LAN-1-MINI-PCI?sc=8&category=754

A question for you?  Do Freebsd 4.6 drivers still work on freebsd 6.2 and 7.0?

Are you working on this CS5536 driver?  Do you have hardware yet?

Andrew Gray

ancelgray  "AT"  y a h o o "dot" c o m



--
This message was sent on behalf of ancelgray@yaho... at openSubscriber.com
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freebsd-hackers@free.../8451180.html
_______________________________________________
freebsd-hackers@free... mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@free..."