looking for a good, small, low power, portable board

[Bruce Griffith]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:28 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com
http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot> wrote:
>
> They're kind of big. The gizmosphere is a better size.*
>

I don’t think there’s enough memory on Gizmo (1GB?).  And no slots, so the
result would be kind of brittle.

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.

See:

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=NanoPC&U=en-us0000022

If I remember right, the NIC is an RTL8111 (variant of gigE RTL8169).

They have new models in a similar form factor.  But I doubt they have a
variant that sports an Intel NIC and serial ports.

No experience with this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101145

[David Hubbard]

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
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:28 AM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot> wrote:
> >
> > They're kind of big. The gizmosphere is a better size.*
> >
>
> I don’t think there’s enough memory on Gizmo (1GB?).  And no slots, so the
> result would be kind of brittle.
>
> 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.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=NanoPC&U=en-us0000022
>
> If I remember right, the NIC is an RTL8111 (variant of gigE RTL8169).
>
> They have new models in a similar form factor.  But I doubt they have a
> variant that sports an Intel NIC and serial ports.
>
> No experience with this:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101145