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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:21:57 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com>
To:        Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, dan.kotowski@a9development.com, rivers@dignus.com
Subject:   Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?
Message-ID:  <03D4DC97-1F65-4CF3-A85B-6744A401931D@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6136F5CE-0E73-4A36-B3B0-CA17C8BEE9AA@unrelenting.technology>
References:  <202103310043.12V0hFqg023324@office.dignus.com> <6136F5CE-0E73-4A36-B3B0-CA17C8BEE9AA@unrelenting.technology>

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> Am 31.03.2021 um 14:18 schrieb Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>:
>=20
> On March 31, 2021 12:43:15 AM UTC, Thomas David Rivers =
<rivers@dignus.com> wrote:
>> I'm wondering why the Mac M1 machines haven't been mentioned?
>> (Like the newest MacMini...)
>>=20
>> Would they not make a good ARM64 machine?
>=20
> Currently only using virtualization.
>=20
> Someone would have to make lots of drivers to run bare metal. OpenBSD =
and NetBSD have some already, but I'm not aware of any efforts in =
FreeBSD yet.
>=20
> Apple hardware is *very* non-standard, they don't even use the GIC, =
having a custom interrupt controller instead.

well, I have mentioned M1 in post #9 of this long thread as the most =
interesting =E2=80=A6..

 really interesting   :
https://reviews.freebsd.org/R10:3a314eb5bb444ec019457e5aefaabb656fcb3d54


> Am 31.03.2021 um 00:52 schrieb Dan Kotowski =
<dan.kotowski@a9development.com>:
>=20
> Yes, I'm currently swapping between a CACE AirPcap NX (otus) and a =
Microchip LAN7800 EVB (muge) from =
https://www.microchip.com/Developmenttools/ProductDetails/EVB-LAN7800. #
> They're ugly but functional.

lol, that made my day :-) Ha Ha =E2=80=A6
my whole desk is cluttered with all the ugly crap,
but thanks to Apple, it looks impressive all in all :-)

Regards

K.






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