Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:16:05 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Jedi Tek'Unum <jedi@jeditekunum.com> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <20180620171605.b66d2e87f7a1e126279892b8@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <F7E1E5BD-B84E-485A-A3E0-461194FA9CCD@jeditekunum.com> References: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com> <20180620035146.GC29485@lonesome.com> <F7E1E5BD-B84E-485A-A3E0-461194FA9CCD@jeditekunum.com>
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:07:27 -0500 Jedi Tek'Unum <jedi@jeditekunum.com> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2018, at 10:51 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > > development boards). I'd rather let people know what we recommend for > > new arm users. I expect RPi, Pine64, OrangePi, and BeagleBone to be > > in that list ... are the CubieBoard and WandBoard still popular? >=20 > I?ve found the NanoPi NEO series more desirable than the similar OrangePi= models. Heatsink. Metal case. OLED/button board. http://www.friendlyarm.co= m <http://www.friendlyarm.com/>; Perfect for many really small projects. >=20 > I?m still using Linux on mine as there isn?t out-of-the-box support from = FreeBSD. I did find a build that someone had done awhile back that seemed t= o work. I suspect the differences are minor. Unfortunately, I don?t have th= e time to learn the details of board support to contribute at this time. Mhm, it is suppored out of the box for a lot of the NanoPi NEO (I think I have them all). But in 12 due to drivers and more importantly DTS. > The support for ?larger? boards is great. I hope there is a continued exp= ansion downward - all the way to IoT scale. The NEO / Zero style boards are= getting close. While a bit larger, they are cheaper - and obviously far mo= re powerful - than things like an AdaFruit Feather <https://www.adafruit.co= m/category/943> or Particle Photon <https://www.particle.io/>. How long unt= il we see hardware that shrinks down to those sizes and is unix-capable? >=20 --=20 Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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