PfSense on Intel Galileo?

riahc3

Snce Raspberry Pi isnt x86, there are alternatives (a bit more expensive) to look at, such as the Intel Galileo to run pfSense on.

Has anyone gotten pfSense to run on a Intel Galileo?

stephenw10

Doesn't look like a great target to be honest. Minimum ram requirement. Relatively slow CPU. Only one NIC.
Are there any benchmarks? How is the NIC connected? Has anyone run FreeBSD on it?

Edit: Looks like a bigger problem is that it only boots efi and there's no 32bit efi support in FreeBSD currently.

Steve

messerchmidt

a bit of a worthless platform, more of a bad x86 rb pi competitor

Guest

I bought a Galileo board at IDF IDF 2014 San Francisco this past September. It's still in the box.

A Minnowboard Max and a small VLAN capable switch (or a USB3 Ethernet device) would be pretty cool though. 8)

Guest

@stephenw10:

Doesn't look like a great target to be honest. Minimum ram requirement. Relatively slow CPU. Only one NIC.
Are there any benchmarks? How is the NIC connected? Has anyone run FreeBSD on it?

Edit: Looks like a bigger problem is that it only boots efi and there's no 32bit efi support in FreeBSD currently.

Steve

The Quark SoC X1000 has two 10/100 MACs on-board, connected (internally) over PCI. The Galileo board only brings out one of these.

See Chapter 15 of: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/quark/quark-x1000-datasheet.html
Schematic is here: http://download.intel.com/support/galileo/sb/galileo_fabh_schem_120514.pdf

Otherwise, stephenw10 is spot-on. Slow CPU (400MHz, 32-bit only), minimum RAM (256MB).

kroberts

That minnowboard max looks interesting.

jasonlitka

@kroberts:

That minnowboard max looks interesting.

I like the RAM sink glued on top of the CPU. Really lets on how low the power consumption is.