Re: Oversimplification
Peter Jeremy via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
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On 2021-May-30 17:49:01 -0400, George Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >I've never been shy about oversimplifying complex questions, so here >goes: What's the ARM system that presents the least hassle to a >prospective FreeBSD user? Here's what I mean by low hassle: > >1. Widely available. >2. Runs some standard FreeBSD image with minimal (or no) tweaking. >3. I suspect ARM64 means less hassle than ARM32. >4. Friendly to an external high-speed (at least USB 3; possibly SATA?) > disk. >5. Hopefully 8GB on-board memory, though 4GB is probably okay if high > speed swapping is available (see point 4). >6. Affordable, but not cheap. I'll second Milan's followup. I have a 4GB RockPro64 with the dual-SATA PCIe card and am quite happy with it. It also supports both USB-3 and USB-C, though I haven't experimented with either. Note that the WiFi/Bluetooth module for the RockPro64 uses SDIO, and the combination isn't yet supported by FreeBSD. I also have a BananaPi M1, which has an integral SATA port but I've never managed to get the SATA to work. -- Peter Jeremy
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