Re: Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Rebecca Cran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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