[coreboot] looking for a good, small, low power, portable board

David Hubbard david.c.hubbard+coreboot at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 04:31:49 CET 2013


The Asus F2A85-M has the same NIC (RTL8111, uses the r8169 kernel module).
It has only one bug I'm aware of:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55841


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Bruce Griffith
<Bruce.Griffith at se-eng.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:28 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com <http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot>> wrote:
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> >* They're kind of big. The gizmosphere is a better size.*
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> I don’t think there’s enough memory on Gizmo (1GB?).  And no slots, so the
> result would be kind of brittle.
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> I’ve had a small AMD Family 14 system from Foxconn running Linux for my
> kids for a while now (many months).  I bought it at NewEgg but I don’t
> think the exact model is still available.  It’s maybe just a little bigger
> than a paperback novel.  No serial port, though.
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> http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=NanoPC&U=en-us0000022
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> If I remember right, the NIC is an RTL8111 (variant of gigE RTL8169).
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> They have new models in a similar form factor.  But I doubt they have a
> variant that sports an Intel NIC and serial ports.
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> No experience with this:
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>    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101145
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