Helping with ARM support + recommended ARM hardware

[franco]

I have two BPI devices now, so shifting over from RPI2, but not before end of November. I have a few days off for better or worse.


Cheers,
Franco

[chemlud]

OK, but I don't have any Bananas on my little farm here... ;-)

Any news on OPNsense on Raspi 3?

[orangana]

Leave the bananas where they are... go with the orange!

recommended hardware: orange pi r1





but be aware! It costs $13,90 and there is no official opnsense available 

[franco]

But does it run FreeBSD?

[orangana]

But does it run FreeBSD?

It should. The SoC used is a Allwinner H2+ (tecnically a H3 without video) and one page before someone released an image for a H3 SoC.

FreeBSD supports the following Allwinner SoCs:

    Allwinner A10 (sun4i), a single core Cortex-A8
    Allwinner A13/R8 (sun5i), a single core Cortex-A8
    Allwinner A20 (sun7i), a dual-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner A31 and A31s (sun6i), a quad-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner A64 (sun50i), a quad-core Cortex-A53
    Allwinner A83T (sun8i), an octa-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner H3 (sun8i), a quad-core Cortex-A7

From: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Allwinner

And someone who builded FreeBSD: https://framkant.org/2017/07/running-freebsd-on-nanopi-neo-or-orangepi-zero/

It would be more than awesome to see these damn cheap and powerful devices supported by opnsense! 

Meanwhile there is a no go solution called zeroshell (Warning! Outdated kernel! Don't use this anywhere! And don't visit www.zeroshell.org)

[orangana]

Maybe we should directly forward this to 18.1 

...and do the tick for:

Future development*

The development team and users have some wishes they'd like to see in one of the future releases.

• ARM support

https://opnsense.org/about/road-map/ *slightly modified

[monstermania]

Orange Pi
- the 2'nd Ethernet Port seems to be an USB2LAN-port (RTL8152B)
- only 256 MB RAM
- only 32 Bit CPU

[chemlud]

For the use of as a "personal firewall" (i.e. with your notebook/tablet while travelling) that would not be a show stopper for me. What counts as an opnsense for this purpose is a supported wifi device, openVPN, DNS (IDS/IPS would be nice, but not necessary, would not be feasible, I guess). Power supply from a USB-port or from a larger power bank.

[orangana]

Orange Pi
- the 2'nd Ethernet Port seems to be an USB2LAN-port (RTL8152B)
- only 256 MB RAM
- only 32 Bit CPU

This is what you get for $13,90. What do you offer for that price? Anything?

For the use of as a "personal firewall" (i.e. with your notebook/tablet while travelling) that would not be a show stopper for me. What counts as an opnsense for this purpose is a supported wifi device, openVPN, DNS (IDS/IPS would be nice, but not necessary, would not be feasible, I guess). Power supply from a USB-port or from a larger power bank.

Exactly the case. This device is has a typical power usage around 1W and is therefore the perfect device for travel and road warrior scenarios. But also the use at home should be more than fine. For Enterprise you should maybe invest a little more.. Maybe 10 to 100 times more....

[orangana]

But does it run FreeBSD?

It should. The SoC used is a Allwinner H2+ (tecnically a H3 without video) and one page before someone released an image for a H3 SoC.

FreeBSD supports the following Allwinner SoCs:

    Allwinner A10 (sun4i), a single core Cortex-A8
    Allwinner A13/R8 (sun5i), a single core Cortex-A8
    Allwinner A20 (sun7i), a dual-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner A31 and A31s (sun6i), a quad-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner A64 (sun50i), a quad-core Cortex-A53
    Allwinner A83T (sun8i), an octa-core Cortex-A7
    Allwinner H3 (sun8i), a quad-core Cortex-A7

From: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Allwinner

And someone who builded FreeBSD: https://framkant.org/2017/07/running-freebsd-on-nanopi-neo-or-orangepi-zero/

It would be more than awesome to see these damn cheap and powerful devices supported by opnsense! 
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So the SoC is natively supported by FreeBSD. Is there any change to see a (beta) build of opnsense for the H3/H2+ SoC Family? Or is there any guide how to do this?

Thank'S & Greetings