From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Tue Oct 15 22:04:58 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F86155ABC for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gate2.funkthat.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46t8c90Xghz3QmD for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:04:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.funkthat.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x9FM4Xbn052248 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by gold.funkthat.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x9FM4Xsl052247; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:04:33 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Nenhum_de_Nos Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Choose between Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and ROCKPro64 Message-ID: <20191015220433.GS96402@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Nenhum_de_Nos , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <7b75e2ed23e334878fbb3c1d585ffc51.squirrel@10.1.1.11> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7b75e2ed23e334878fbb3c1d585ffc51.squirrel@10.1.1.11> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D87A 235F FB71 1F3F 55B7 ED9B D5FF 5A51 C0AC 3D65 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: https://www.funkthat.com/ X-Resume: https://www.funkthat.com/~jmg/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (gold.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:04:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46t8c90Xghz3QmD X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jmg@gold.funkthat.com has no SPF policy when checking 208.87.223.18) smtp.mailfrom=jmg@gold.funkthat.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.25 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.94)[-0.938,0]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.52)[ip: (-1.34), ipnet: 208.87.216.0/21(-0.67), asn: 32354(-0.54), country: US(-0.05)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[funkthat.com]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.997,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[jmg@funkthat.com,jmg@gold.funkthat.com]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:32354, ipnet:208.87.216.0/21, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[jmg@funkthat.com,jmg@gold.funkthat.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:04:58 -0000 Nenhum_de_Nos wrote this message on Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 23:31 -0300: > I am about to buy a new arm box and would like it to be the most powerfull > I can get and still get to use FreeBSD somewhere not so far from now. I > know RPi4 is not supported right now, but as I have both RPi2B and RPi3B > and they run fine, my guess is the 4B will have its time also. > > So it then comes down to 4B or ROCKPro64. I saw Pine64 images, but I could > not find much information about the ROCKPro64. I looked for some > benchmarks to know the faster CPU, and it looks like the RK3399 is a bit > faster. As the board has more features, I am asking here, if this has even > an answer, what board has better future in FreeBSD. > > Thanks in advance :) RockPro64 work is still ongoing. It is coming along though, and it does boot. There is still lots of work to do, like properly support the big.little cores and the like. I have mine booting from SD card, but it isn't yet full speed (though I need to test some of the fixes that have been committed. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."