<div dir="ltr">Dave,<div><br></div><div>The APU1 uses the Realtek RTL8111E - these have drivers that work better in windows than in Linux. Mainly I use OpenWRT, ipFire & pfSense, but I've also tested Ubuntu and other Linux distros on it. For the APU2 ECC Ram was one of the reasons I bought it - server class components for less than $130 is a bargain on this small boards.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding BQL - I'm unsure if that feature/functionality has been implemented yet on the driver for this device, but I can take a look later this week. </div><div><br></div><div>Luis</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Dave Taht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does the apu1 have BQL support for those realtek's yet?<br>
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I have always had very good results for the intel ethernet and they<br>
were the first to get good bql support. so +1 for the design overall.<br>
ECC! on home gear!<br>
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what OS do you run on them? (I am primarily debian/ubuntu/openwrt, but<br>
in this case I think I'd lean ubuntu or debian)<br>
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(it's very cool to have coreboot, too)<br>
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Luis E. Garcia <<a href="mailto:luis@bitamins.net">luis@bitamins.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have both boards and can say that they both very good networking platforms<br>
> - the apu1 has the small issue of the Realtek drivers for the ethernet<br>
> ports, Pascal has solved that i the apu2 by going with Intel ethernet ports<br>
> - My guess is that they won't do a full marketing push on the apu2 until the<br>
> bios for it is feature-complete (it's very close now).<br>
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> On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, Erkki Lintunen <<a href="mailto:erkki.lintunen@iki.fi">erkki.lintunen@iki.fi</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> * Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>> [2016-04-19 21:07:52 -0700]:<br>
>><br>
>> > <a href="http://pcengines.ch/apu1d4.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pcengines.ch/apu1d4.htm</a><br>
>><br>
>> May it be you have missed their latest apu2 board with a better cpu?<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://pcengines.ch/apu2b2.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pcengines.ch/apu2b2.htm</a><br>
>><br>
>> According to their price list apu2 with 4GB ram costs the same as<br>
>> apu1d4. A strange thing is that PC Engines is a bit shy on telling about<br>
>> apu2 and only link to apu2 product page I could find is very briefly on<br>
>> the bottom of their front page.<br>
>><br>
>> - Erkki<br>
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