Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?
Klaus Küchemann via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
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> Am 28.03.2021 um 19:13 schrieb Ian Lepore <[email protected]>: > ….. Virtually any alternative arm64 system that > runs freebsd at all is a superior choice over the Rpi family. :-), 2 years ago I would have said that you’re right…. the times they are a changing , scoobidoo... > Anything > else will have better support from the freebsd developers including, > especially, the professional developers who are paid by companies to > support freebsd on arm/arm64. your paid colleagues support aarch64 in general, RPI4 is aarch64. You vastly underestimate your other colleagues who developed special rpi4-drivers&hacks ! > Nobody is paying anybody to support > freebsd on rpi, and consequently all you get in the way of support is > half-baked theories and anecdotal reports from other people struggling > to use an rpi with freebsd. Rpi4 is "full-baked“-supported :-) , 8GB RAM, genet, pcie(USB 3.0) , Supports JTAG, netboot etc. , it never crashed for me the last months/years. While some drivers still missing, that’s also the case for other boards. As a „power to serve“-cheap-board it`s fully supported, no problems (since the beginning of the 1st cpu-hack)! > If you're looking to save every penny possible and are willing to put > up with endless frustration and things not working, get an rpi. If you > want a usable arm64 computer that runs freebsd, get anything else. > you mean the missing documentation-frustration? While there’s even a little docs available, but e.g. Crowston didn’t need docs, he used JTAG :-) Ha Ha For still missing drivers the documentation is in other BSDs or tux.(e.g. genet -driver was based on other BSD-driver). I didn’t save every penny, have RK3388, RK3399 and some other archs, even Risc-V. None of the other boards can be considered as „SMOOTHLY“ working because of paid developers, Long list of examples available , but that`not the topic. Some people(and developers) didn’t understand the closed source environment of rpi-firmware. ( and other things like u-boot,eeprom)... That’s why we are here and do support the RPI4 by full-baked theories, anecdotal reports, mystical patches and extraordinary configuration-hints. Ha Ha :-) Regards K. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"