Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?
Rebecca Cran <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"