Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:39:09 +0000 From: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> Cc: Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology> Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? Message-ID: <f3hHexkIDGQX3sr0f3EOMvUZF0x6JsYpzHZ5bcGch0KxWF3MOakIenD2VfjnJG-JM8SAhlUhDCR_3wZalOKMBGvL4Acyhcl0iO8mdsJDUXs=@a9development.com> In-Reply-To: <74C08272-D40E-42D2-A623-CEE12C661329@googlemail.com> References: <21BE83BC-0667-44F7-83E4-1664A2BC6017@icloud.com> <E4905B08-79AD-4B48-87A0-3E0EF3027C8B@googlemail.com> <cc9bc6a4-4012-8f66-2dd6-6b9e552438ea@spth.de> <74C08272-D40E-42D2-A623-CEE12C661329@googlemail.com>
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> > > of course , starting @~$500-$700(without accessories like RAM etc.) > > > > > > you can buy aarch64-dev-boards which completely outperform the RPI4 > > > > > > in performance and connectivity ;-) > > > > But isn't there a big risk that those exotic powerful boards might not > > > > work or not work well with FreeBSD, since few developers have them, and > > > > no one considers them important enoug to make sure releases work on the= m? > > e.g. you can ask 'the unrelenting myfreeweb-man=E2=80=98 :-) & the board-= owner Dan K. (added to CC) for the =E2=80=9Ewhat works, what doesn=E2=80= =99t=E2=80=9C- status of the LX2K =E2=80=A6 > > while I would call it less a risk then more a challenge to work with boar= ds like that(that=E2=80=99s why you would buy one). > > well=E2=80=A6 so many topics in one thread.. funny...see you later... > > Regards > > K. SolidRun's Honeycomb (HC), built around NXP's LX2K SoC, is pretty phenomena= l. Firmware still has a few changes in the works, but it's mostly cosmetic = stuff at this point and I've been happily daily-driving mine for about a mo= nth - yes, it sufficiently replaced my aging desktop built around a Core i7= -3770K! In fact, there's a handful of us using HCs as FreeBSD-13.0 desktops= now. However: * no built-in GPU, so if you want a desktop you'll need to get one of those= and that'll eat up your x8 slot * no onboard NIC drivers because they're connected via DPAA2 which we don't= have any support for and I just don't have the time or expertise to write = those myself :
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