Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 08:46:47 +0200 From: Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Cc: peter@rulingia.com Subject: Re: Oversimplification Message-ID: <20210603084647.24eeed35@zeta.dino.sk> In-Reply-To: <YLh0ne2wgXn6RvFY@server.rulingia.com> References: <35728cba-0152-9b73-77f9-48683e870bbd@m5p.com> <YLh0ne2wgXn6RvFY@server.rulingia.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 16:20:13 +1000, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2021-May-30 17:49:01 -0400, George Mitchell > <george+freebsd@m5p.com> 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. > Just out of curiosity - do you mean SATA card from pine64.org shop? Was some extra steps required to make it work? Could you share relevant lines from dmesg output? > Note that the WiFi/Bluetooth module for the RockPro64 uses SDIO, > and the combination isn't yet supported by FreeBSD. > Well, it would be nice to get it to working state... no idea how much work that is. Regards, Milan
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