Re: need your advice before new Raspberry Pi purchase

Cause lighttpd was familar to me, I  have used it under raspbian and Debian.

El 22/4/24 a las 16:03, Justin Parrott escribió:
> why do you choose lighttpd over the one distributed with n?
> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM Ramiro Aceves <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     El 21/4/24 a las 20:33, Justin Parrott escribió:
>      > what do you use it for?
> 
>     Lighttpd Web server, home minidlna film server.
> 
>      >
>      > On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 2:24 PM Ramiro Aceves <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>      > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hello,
>      >
>      >     I am thinking about buying a more powerful Raspberry Pi than
>     my actual
>      >     Raspberry Pi ZeroW. I like very much how NetBSD operating
>     system is
>      >     working although I was a bit dissapointed with WIFI driver
>     for the
>      >     builtin WIFI device, I feel that I can control the OS and it
>     is the
>      >     OS I
>      >     was looking for, simple and straightforward without bells and
>     whistles.
>      >
>      >     In general NetBSD works fine in the Pi once you get used to it,
>      >     everything makes sense soon, you fell confortable and why not
>     to say, I
>      >     am in a new world after many years using Linux and needed new
>      >     sensations. On the Zero W WIFI bwfm driver did not work well and
>      >     overcome that buying a USB WIFI dongle with RTL 8188EU chip
>     that works
>      >     almost ok (with no channel switching  in the router). Now I
>     am going to
>      >     use only ethernet network connection so WIFI will not be a
>     problem.
>      >
>      >
>      >     I have been reading
>      > https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/
>     <https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/>
>      >     <https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/
>     <https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/>>
>      >     but information is a bit confusing.
>      >
>      >     "As of early 2024, NetBSD does not support the Raspberry Pi 5."
>      >
>      >     Reading that I inmediatly discarded the Raspberry Pi 5
>     choice. Being
>      >     realistic I think It does not work in NetBSD 10 now and I
>     estimate it
>      >     will not work well for perhaps some years. Life is short, I
>     cannot wait
>      >     and so I think RaspberryPi 4 should be my buying target.
>      >
>      >
>      >     "NetBSD 10"
>      >
>      >           "RPI4 general support (but there are issues)"
>      >
>      >     Seems explained below.
>      >
>      >
>      >           "RPI4 ethernet (Broadcom GENETv5) (but the man page for
>      >     genet(4) is
>      >     missing)"
>      >
>      >     Can I be sure that ethernet will work fine and reliable?
>     Network speed?
>      >
>      >
>      >           "builtin bluetooth on RPI3 (RPI0W? RPI4?)"
>      >
>      >     Does bluetooth work on the Pi4?
>      >
>      >
>      >           "builtin WiFi on RPI0W, RPI3 and RPI4 - bwfm(4)"
>      >
>      >     Does WIFI bwfm  driver work as badly as in the ZeroW? Not
>     relevant for
>      >     my future use of the Pi 4 cause I will use it through
>     ethernet but that
>      >     will be a bonus, just curious.
>      >
>      >
>      >           "RPI4 xhci does not work with a straight netbsd-10 install"
>      >
>      >     I seems that below is the explanation.
>      >
>      >           "RPI4 hardware rng does not work with a straight netbsd-10
>      >     install"
>      >
>      >     I seems that below is the explanation.
>      >
>      >
>      >     The following chapter is very confusing for me:
>      >
>      >
>      >     "Issues and Workarounds"
>      >     "RPI4 xhci"
>      >
>      >     "With the netbsd-10 arm64.img on a RPI4 (most of them), the
>     pci driver
>      >     is missing and therefore xhci will not attach, so the USB
>     ports will
>      >     not
>      >     work. One workaround is to switch to UEFI, but that leads to
>     a 3GB
>      >     memory limit and needing a monitor. Another is to add kernel
>     config.
>      >     One
>      >     can also add the hardware rng. Adding the following to
>     GENERIC64.local
>      >     results in both working; you likely also need a dtb that
>     includes the
>      >     RNG. \todo Explain why this isn't in GENERIC64 or link to a PR.
>      >
>      >     GENERIC64
>      >
>      >     bcm2838pcie* at fdt?                    # STB PCIe host
>     controller
>      >     bcm2838rng* at fdt?                     # RPI4 RNG
>      >
>      >     There is some need to load firmware for the xhci driver, but
>     apparently
>      >     that works, once the above is added"
>      >
>      >
>      >     Does it mean that using  "traditional booting" you end with
>     non working
>      >     USB ports? Will you even end without keyboard? I mainly will
>     use the Pi
>      >     headless via ssh but need the keyboard in the first
>     configuring steps.
>      >
>      >     After switching to UEFI you will make USB ports work but 8 GB
>      >     RapberryPi
>      >     will be reduced to 3 GB only with no workaround? What do
>     "needing a
>      >     monitor" mean? Why?
>      >     If the fix for USB and rng is recompiling the KERNEL, why is not
>      >     enabled
>      >     by default in the standard image?
>      >
>      >
>      >     "RPI4 UEFI 3 GB"
>      >
>      >     "To work around bugs in hardware (that may or may not be fixed in
>      >     recent
>      >     RPI4) and because not all OSes have workarounds, the UEFI
>     firmware's
>      >     default is to limit RAM to 3GB. NetBSD 10 can be used with
>     more, so
>      >     this
>      >     needs to be configured in UEFI."
>      >
>      >     That should be explained more in detail for newcomers.
>      >
>      >     Last questions:
>      >
>      >     Do GPIO pins work ok?
>      >
>      >     Does I2C work? That is important for me cause I plan to read some
>      >     sensors.
>      >
>      >     Does HDMI output work or should I use serial console?
>     traditional boot
>      >     vs UEFI difference in this matter?
>      >
>      >     What is your final opinion about NetBSD in that board? Are
>     there better
>      >     supported boards perhaps?
>      >
>      >     Many thanks and sorry for so many questions, just I want to
>     be sure
>      >     that
>      >     I am going to make a good and useful purchase. If I purchase
>     a Rpi 4
>      >     instead of Rpi 5 to have NetBSD support and It does not work
>     ok, it
>      >     will
>      >     be a absolute nonsense.
>      >
>      >     I appreciate your work very much and your comments and advice
>     will be
>      >     welcome and very valuable for me.
>      >
>      >     Thanks in advance.
>      >
>      >
>      >     Ramiro.
>      >
>      >
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