Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:20:51 -0600 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> To: Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Klaus_K=c3=bcchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64? Message-ID: <123a1b51-7109-4dc9-7deb-c10520b938b5@bsdio.com> In-Reply-To: <f3hHexkIDGQX3sr0f3EOMvUZF0x6JsYpzHZ5bcGch0KxWF3MOakIenD2VfjnJG-JM8SAhlUhDCR_3wZalOKMBGvL4Acyhcl0iO8mdsJDUXs=@a9development.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> <f3hHexkIDGQX3sr0f3EOMvUZF0x6JsYpzHZ5bcGch0KxWF3MOakIenD2VfjnJG-JM8SAhlUhDCR_3wZalOKMBGvL4Acyhcl0iO8mdsJDUXs=@a9development.com>
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On 3/30/21 8:39 AM, Dan Kotowski wrote: > SolidRun's Honeycomb (HC), built around NXP's LX2K SoC, is pretty phenomenal. 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 month - 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 : There's been some discussion about PCIe bifurcation on the Discord etc., so it _might_ be possible to split the x8 slot and install two cards? -- Rebecca Cran
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