Marvell ESPRESSOBin

>>57330452
what do you wanna do with it?

>>57330536
Host an imageboard

>>57330452
How is this better than an orange pi plus 2, or an odroid c2?

>>57330640
that will do it probably.

>>57330655
More memory
3 Ethernet ports
12V power for 3.5-inch hard drives on board
mini-PCI-e slot

>>57330680
Both have 2GB ram too though, but the onboard mpcie and sata is sweet

Can it do live packet sniffing?

Can this run Plex server? It's about the same price as a RaspPi, but it has SATA for an HDD.

>57331231
In their kickstarter promovideo they talk about media servers, including the use of Plex.

>>57331301
Thanks.

>>57330452
>Marvell

>>57330452

>Marvell

lol

>>57330452
Does it have a non-free bios??

>>57331444
Probably.

Very few ARM SBCs have open bootloaders.

Even RPi has locked bootloader.

>>57330452
Depends on how well supported the chipset is, the firmware, etc. The raspberry pi 1 may stuck compared to the banana pi, but they have ok support, and the banana pi has awful firmware support. The beaglebone, OTOH, has amazing support.

>>57331964
The raspi is insane about booting. Literally, it uses the GPU to boot. There's no possible way of booting it without their blessing & closed source firmware.

>>57331354
>>57331438
i see we have some nvidia users in here lol

>>57330452
>>57330680
So basically it's overpriced 3x Pine64 with 512MB (15$) RAM (+ 1 Sata - 2 CPU - 1G RAM + 4$ = Marvell ESPRESSOBin with 1GB)?

>>57332336
There is a massive premium for SATA and Gigabit Ethernet.

See pricing for Banana Pi-M1 or Cubieboard 3.

They both have underpowered Cortex-A7 processors, but command $40+ even on AliExpress.

>>57332358
Pine A64+ has Gigabit Ethernet so 2 Pine A64+ or 3 + 8$...
Sata of course serious + for me but not totally for such board really need pci-e/m.2.
Also it's 5x-8x C.H.E.A.P. or 9 RPI zero for home automation/IoT...

>>57330452
Great for pfSense

>>57330452

>no quad-core
>2016

>>57330452
wheres the LED gaming lights?

>>57332867
It has GPIO headers.

You can add as many LEDs as you like and flash them however you want.

>>57332810

>pfSense
>ARM

Pick one

Although it its great for a firewall.

>>57330680
>>57330452
What would someone use three ethernet ports for? I understand two... one for incoming server traffic and another for dedicated remote etc... but why three?

>>57334351
A DMZ or guest network if they were using it as a router

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>>57330452
Can I install a lightweight linux district and DE and use it as a regular computer?

>>57332810
>>57333039
FreeBSD is support ARM64(Aarch64)

>>57330452
>ethernet

dumped

what is this 1995?

>>57334351
Have two networks with a different level of access.
Or have two ISPs (more common than you would think).

>>57330452
>It costs $49 including shipping.
>Kickstarter
Too bad it won't deliver, then.

>>57334926
Actually...
>For networking applications it acts like an ethernet switch with 2 LAN and 1 WAN.
So it's actually only two controllers, and a 2 port switch on one of those.
So apart from connecting two devices without using an external switch, there's no point.

>>57334351
>why three

Because it's literally just the Armada 3700 home router dev board/reference design.

The SOC has two 2.5gbe ports, one goes directly to WAN (using a 1gbe PHY most likely) and the other is split into the two 1gbe LAN ports by a seperate switch chip to demo one of the SGMII ports running in 2.5gbe mode.

>>57331964
Not true.

BCM2835/6/7/8 has no eFuses for locking the bootloader, or any sig verification. The boot ROM just boots off the VPU running a proprietary ThreadX RTOS blob with a mailbox interface, because it's a VC4 with an ARM bolted on as an afterthought.

Broadcom even recently documented the VPU, not to mention the reverse engineering efforts, including a toolchain, and the in-progress open source firmware with an engineer from Broadcom working on it.

>>57334467
This.

+ How does it compare to the Raspberry Pi3 ?

>>57335041

It's not 'open' if the only toolchain available is barely functional and cobbled together from patents and guesswork.

That's like saying the PS3 is an open system. Obviously, patently false.

>>57335052
Media acceleration is questionable.

>>57335284
I didn't say open: I said not locked (which the PS3 and its isolated SPU, symmetric keys and failed ECDSA system very much is). No ARM SoC meets my criteria for open, I'm afraid.

ARM is a troubled world sometimes, particularly with the out of tree kernel patch sets needed for many SoCs.

Besides this is a thread about Marvell. I'm a reverse-engineer: I fucking know Marvell, not to mention MediaTek - not exactly paragons of transparency themselves. Nor are Broadcom, which is why its surprising to see them opening anything at all.

>>57330452
add a AC1200/1750 adaptor and that'd make a neat little router.

The premium might be worth it for the pcie connector. I don't know of any other commonly available boards with that. (and if there are more, please share!)

>>57330452
>1x SATA
>suitable for NAS workloads

>>57330452
Can I use eGPU with it?