Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:34:52 +0200 From: Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Recommended arm hardware (mostly for compilation)? Message-ID: <1b109252-3232-05c4-e1e0-2fea4739583d@spth.de>
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I'm considering to add a FreeBSD arm machine to the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) compile farm. The goal would be to have another arm machine in the farm (for redundancy in case we need to drop the current GNU/Linux arm machine, which ) and a FreeBSD machine (to allow us to promote FreeBSD to an officially supported platform for SDCC). Its task would be daily compilation of SDCC snapshots and running regression tests (i.e. mostly compiling small test programs with SDCC and running the binaries on emulators). Can you recommend some hardware? A RasPi 3B would probably a bit too weak (I have one and tried FreeBSD 12 on it; the 1GB RAM limit is an issue for this task - in particular it makes parallel compilation impossible); there currently is some RasPi running GNU/Linux in the farm and it barely keeps up with the load. So I'm looking for something with sufficient RAM that is likely to be well-supported by FreeBSD for some years. So far, I've considered: RasPi 4B - hardware seems ok, though FreeBSD support is apaprently lacking due to lack of documentation (how does OpenBSD manage?), and only 4 GB of RAM. RockPro64 - hardware seems okay, though only 4 GB of RAM. I've read on this list thaat the big/little cores aren't handled well by FreeBSD. Pine H64 - small RAM (3GB), rather new. MACCHIATObin - a bit on the expensive side, but still okay and has a RAM slot. Which of these is likely to work out-of-the-box in the FreeBSD 13 release? Any recommendations on which hardware to get?
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