[opensuse-arm] Which ARMv8 board to choose?
Hi, I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one. Could you give me some hints, please? I found the HiKey: https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/ which is $75 (or $99 in 2GB RAM version), plus shipping. Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Guillaume, Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one.
Could you give me some hints, please?
65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-...
I found the HiKey: https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
which is $75 (or $99 in 2GB RAM version), plus shipping.
Note there are two HiKey versions, those prices will be the LeMaker one. It might be the best option bootloader wise, but Alex complained the upstream kernel drivers were still few. Haven't received mine yet. DragonBoard 410c is the other 96Board at ~75$. As mentioned in another recent post its boot process is fairly complex and U-Boot is just emerging as alternative to LK. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:DragonBoard410c Andromeda Box Edge with Marvell IAP140 (PXA1908) has just started shipping at ~75$; no upstream kernel work to be found yet, and didn't find the vendor U-Boot sources yet. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:AndromedaBoxEdge There are further 96Boards announced, including the Bubblegum with Actions Semi S900 and the HuskyBoard with AMD Opteron A1100, but no prices or dates yet. One drawback of all Consumer Edition 96Boards is that they don't have an RJ45 on-board, just wireless, so you'll need to count in a USB Ethernet adapter unless you can and want to use Wifi. HuskyBoard (or whatever it gets called in the end) would be the first Enterprise Edition 96Board, offering more connectors but likely at higher price. The GeekBox is a nicely hackable box with Rockchip RK3368 at ~99$. Just submitted a .dts patch upstream earlier today. U-Boot for now is an ugly vendor version, but I expect that to resolve itself over time. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:GeekBox Various TV boxes with Rockchip RK3368 or Amlogic S905 are available from China in the ~60-120$ range. Expect vendor U-Boot or kernel limitations and no schematics. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton; HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/20/2016 07:37 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one.
Could you give me some hints, please? 65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-...
IMHO that one looks very promising. It's the first device that's going to be widely available and cheap enough for a hobbyist community to actually emerge around an ARMv8 system.
I found the HiKey: https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
which is $75 (or $99 in 2GB RAM version), plus shipping. Note there are two HiKey versions, those prices will be the LeMaker one. It might be the best option bootloader wise, but Alex complained the upstream kernel drivers were still few. Haven't received mine yet.
Upstream you basically have a serial port and RAM access. Oh, and an interrupt controller ;). No MMC, no USB, no graphics, no .... you name it Downstream there is some old vendor tree that I haven't looked at and a 4.4 based tree. However, I did run into several issues with that one and reported them: https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221 https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222 https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223 So depending on the amount of time you want to sink into getting a usable system, I'm not 100% sure the HiKey a great choice ;). Especially given how much of the code is upstream at this point in time. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
On Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016 22:16:40 CET Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01/20/2016 07:37 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one.
Could you give me some hints, please?
65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-singl e-board-super-comput IMHO that one looks very promising. It's the first device that's going to be widely available and cheap enough for a hobbyist community to actually emerge around an ARMv8 system.
I have pledge for a 2GByte A64+ and maybe I am also lucky to get one of the dev boards (was contacted to provide my address, maybe german customs is already playing with the board ;-)? See http://forum.pine64.org/ showthread.php?tid=55) Maybe you can try to get one of the dev boards as well? But even 41$ (including shipping) for the 2GByte A64+ is quite nice. On the plus side it has GBit Ethernet, although it lacks on the storage side (no SATA, eMMC provided by the SoC but unused). Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019 work: +49 2405 49936-424 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
Le 21/01/2016 03:11, Stefan Bruens a écrit :
On Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016 22:16:40 CET Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01/20/2016 07:37 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one.
Could you give me some hints, please? 65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-singl e-board-super-comput IMHO that one looks very promising. It's the first device that's going to be widely available and cheap enough for a hobbyist community to actually emerge around an ARMv8 system. I have pledge for a 2GByte A64+ and maybe I am also lucky to get one of the dev boards (was contacted to provide my address, maybe german customs is already playing with the board ;-)? See http://forum.pine64.org/ showthread.php?tid=55)
Maybe you can try to get one of the dev boards as well? But even 41$ (including shipping) for the 2GByte A64+ is quite nice. On the plus side it has GBit Ethernet, although it lacks on the storage side (no SATA, eMMC provided by the SoC but unused).
Kind regards,
Stefan
Thanks to all of you for your answers. Pine64 seems to be very interestiing indeed. ;) Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
21.01.2016 18:21, Guillaume Gardet пишет:
Le 21/01/2016 03:11, Stefan Bruens a écrit :
On Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016 22:16:40 CET Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01/20/2016 07:37 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one.
Could you give me some hints, please? 65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-singl
e-board-super-comput IMHO that one looks very promising. It's the first device that's going to be widely available and cheap enough for a hobbyist community to actually emerge around an ARMv8 system. I have pledge for a 2GByte A64+ and maybe I am also lucky to get one of the dev boards (was contacted to provide my address, maybe german customs is already playing with the board ;-)? See http://forum.pine64.org/ showthread.php?tid=55)
Maybe you can try to get one of the dev boards as well? But even 41$ (including shipping) for the 2GByte A64+ is quite nice. On the plus side it has GBit Ethernet, although it lacks on the storage side (no SATA, eMMC provided by the SoC but unused).
Kind regards,
Stefan
Thanks to all of you for your answers.
Pine64 seems to be very interestiing indeed. ;)
Does it support UEFI boot? I've failed to find details.
Guillaume
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Am 13.03.2016 um 19:30 schrieb Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com>:
21.01.2016 18:21, Guillaume Gardet пишет:
Le 21/01/2016 03:11, Stefan Bruens a écrit :
On Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016 22:16:40 CET Alexander Graf wrote:
On 01/20/2016 07:37 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet: I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know which one.
Could you give me some hints, please? 65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-singl
e-board-super-comput IMHO that one looks very promising. It's the first device that's going to be widely available and cheap enough for a hobbyist community to actually emerge around an ARMv8 system. I have pledge for a 2GByte A64+ and maybe I am also lucky to get one of the dev boards (was contacted to provide my address, maybe german customs is already playing with the board ;-)? See http://forum.pine64.org/ showthread.php?tid=55)
Maybe you can try to get one of the dev boards as well? But even 41$ (including shipping) for the 2GByte A64+ is quite nice. On the plus side it has GBit Ethernet, although it lacks on the storage side (no SATA, eMMC provided by the SoC but unused).
Kind regards,
Stefan
Thanks to all of you for your answers.
Pine64 seems to be very interestiing indeed. ;)
Does it support UEFI boot? I've failed to find details.
Unfortunately not. The only firmware we have there is a 32bit u-boot, so even my efi patches won't work yet. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
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