Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:07:27 -0500 From: Jedi Tek'Unum <jedi@jeditekunum.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: De-orbit Allwinner A10/A20/A31 for 12.0 Message-ID: <F7E1E5BD-B84E-485A-A3E0-461194FA9CCD@jeditekunum.com> In-Reply-To: <20180620035146.GC29485@lonesome.com> References: <20180612223248.f95d9ce3961187576e220614@bidouilliste.com> <20180620035146.GC29485@lonesome.com>
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On Jun 19, 2018, at 10:51 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > development boards). I'd rather let people know what we recommend for > new arm users. I expect RPi, Pine64, OrangePi, and BeagleBone to be > in that list ... are the CubieBoard and WandBoard still popular? I=E2=80=99ve found the NanoPi NEO series more desirable than the similar = OrangePi models. Heatsink. Metal case. OLED/button board. = http://www.friendlyarm.com <http://www.friendlyarm.com/>; Perfect for = many really small projects. I=E2=80=99m still using Linux on mine as there isn=E2=80=99t = out-of-the-box support from FreeBSD. I did find a build that someone had = done awhile back that seemed to work. I suspect the differences are = minor. Unfortunately, I don=E2=80=99t have the time to learn the details = of board support to contribute at this time. The support for =E2=80=9Clarger=E2=80=9D boards is great. I hope there = is a continued expansion downward - all the way to IoT scale. The NEO / = Zero style boards are getting close. While a bit larger, they are = cheaper - and obviously far more powerful - than things like an AdaFruit = Feather <https://www.adafruit.com/category/943>; or Particle Photon = <https://www.particle.io/>. How long until we see hardware that shrinks = down to those sizes and is unix-capable?
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