VIA EPIA-M10000 board "just works" with FreeBSD 4.8

From: Clifton Royston (cliftonr_at_lava.net)
Date: 09/25/03

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      For anyone who's interested, I've been running FreeBSD 4.8 on the
    EPIA-10000M mini-ITX for at least a couple months now; it's available
    for as little as $160 with CPU + motherboard + case + p/s bought
    integrated as the FIC Falcon CR53, and there's a surprising amount of
    I/O integrated onboard. For anybody who's looking to build cheap but
    reasonably powerful servers or desktop machines, this looks like a
    winner.

      I haven't run any real benchmarks, but in terms of "feel" it might be
    equivalent to maybe a 500-600MHz PIII. The total server parts list ran
    about $350 with shipping, including 7200rpm IDE drive and a 2nd 100BT
    card (Linksys LNE100TX.) I haven't tried X or the sound capabilities so
    I'm not sure how suitable it would be for a desktop; I also haven't
    tested whether the IEEE-1394 would work under FreeBSD. For a low-end
    server, though, it's pretty nice, and moderately quiet too.

      The motherboard includes integrated CPU, 1 DDR slot, 4 USB, 2 serial,
    1 parallel I/O, 2 IEEE-1394, floppy port, dual IDE, SVGA out + SVHS TV
    out, 10/100 LAN, and 1 PCI. The IDE interface works at ATA133 under
    FreeBSD 4.8; the VIA/Realtek ethernet is recognized as vr0. The CPU
    integrated on the motherboard is a 1GHz VIA C3, an IDT descendant - the
    newer "Nehemiah" core which is claimed to have better instructions per
    clock than the older VIA cores.

      Matt Dillon posted about the earlier EPIA boards a while back, so I
    thought I'd add a note that this one also works well.

      -- Clifton, not a VIA salesrep 

    -- 
     Clifton Royston  --  LavaNet Systems Architect --  cliftonr@lava.net
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  Did you ever milk this kind of cow?  Well we can do it.  We know how.
If you never did, you should.  These things are fun, and fun is good.
                                                                 -- Dr. Seuss
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