Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 07:28:31 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> Cc: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13 Message-ID: <CAPyFy2DyRbjnvokS30kjJbtm4E%2BsqjD2zxAySKKhT1sz1tEojg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6d9f394c670a8426c61a3d075ffaf3e9@unrelenting.technology> References: <CAPyFy2Aa6Uj0nyQ1Y_KPLd7%2BROJ4xW5i-SpctV1sRVK_BivPHw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2D91v7SwjZOgMG0a9V%2BH6GVCF8NHKp341N8mwnCvA71cA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2BP3hFHuFJyo2M-5pc0%2BCmRiyym1TZ81P5xicR4zED1JQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2BXWPVOJo%2BGOf83sZFrPHE80-QvdHeWrhi%2BTdj0KDnThg@mail.gmail.com> <6d9f394c670a8426c61a3d075ffaf3e9@unrelenting.technology>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 10:12, <greg@unrelenting.technology> wrote: > > The Marvell/SolidRun MACCHIATObin is an affordable 4-core (Cortex A72) > with DDR4 (takes one full size DIMM), SATA, USB 3.0 and PCIe. > And most importantly, excellent firmware support (upstream EDK2+TrustedFirmware). > The PCIe is rather quirky (I really should make a proper blog post already) > but I have it working with a Radeon RX 480. > It can be a decent developer desktop if you're fine with > "2013 era ultrabook" levels of performance :D Yeah, it looks like a pretty good platform, if we can get past "quirky PCIe" to "buy x, y, z, install the image from https://..., and it will just work". I think the performance should be fine, stability and usability are more important.
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