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