moin 2013/12/11 Axel Theilmann <axel@nomaden.org>
moin,
The only SoC with built-in USB3 and reasonable OpenSUSE support that I'm aware of is the Exynos5. You could try and see whether the Arndale Board or the ODROID-XU good for you:
if you're talking about the pre-built jeos images, the beagleboard should be supported quite well as well. although its also not really cheap, but its easier to order than the odroid or even the arndale.
https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:BeagleBoard-xM
but the beaglebone is a bit dated (and hence well supported). the odroid-xu and the arndale are _much_ faster. but especially the odroid-xu is pretty bleeding edge (and it seems the specific SoC on the odroid-xu (exynos 5410) has a silicon bug, and theres already an odroid-xu2 announced which will be released soon.)
if the jeos-beagle image works on a "beaglebone black" as well, that would probably be option with the best bang per buck ration. it costs about the same as as raspi, but is a lot more powerful.
http://www.exp-tech.de/Mainboards/BeagleBone-Black.html
i can try if the jeos-beagle image works on there.
Maybe the new CubieBoard has everything you need too, but I don't have any experience with those:
- http://cubieboard.org/2013/10/30/cubieboard3-cubietruck-is-all-ready/
the cubietruck is a nice board, but not very well supported yet (at all) since its pretty new.
they're pretty affordable, but the allwinner SoC that all the cubie boards are based on needs a special kernel (linux-sunxi, based on linux 3.4). some initial support for allwinner is in 3.12 mainline linux, but not much works yet (no permanent storage, no graphics, no usb...basicaly you can boot to initrd and thats it..).
the gmac is worked in my a20 stb with the lastest linux kernel. there are progresses about usb, sata and mmc in upstream kernel recently. i would expect it will be available soon. considering it support xen/kvm. it is suitable for running a server on ck. BTW, i am working on building opensuse image for it. bamvor
the linux-sunxi kernel works ok, but since it's not mainline and does not support device tree yet. creating images is not very elegant. (i'm working with an a20-olinuxino-micro at the moment, also based on the allwinner A20 soc).
if you don't need all the interfaces the cubietruck has, the cubieboard 2 or the a20-olinuxino-micro are cheaper choices.
in all, the allwinner boards are cheap, work in general, but are a bit of a hassle to get to work with opensuse/JeoOS.
i'll test the jeos-beagle image on the beaglebone black and get back to you..
oh, and whatever you do, stay away from rk8133 boards..they're horrible ;)
tty, axel
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