From nobody Thu Jun 03 06:46:47 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6C11377D42 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2021 06:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arm@dino.sk) Received: from mailhost.netlabit.sk (mailhost.netlabit.sk [84.245.65.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FwbzL1RFpz4Y41 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2021 06:46:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arm@dino.sk) Received: from zeta.dino.sk (fw3.dino.sk [84.245.95.254]) (AUTH: LOGIN milan) by mailhost.netlabit.sk with ESMTPA; Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:46:51 +0200 id 00DD63A3.60B87ADB.000116DE Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 08:46:47 +0200 From: Milan Obuch To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Cc: peter@rulingia.com Subject: Re: Oversimplification Message-ID: <20210603084647.24eeed35@zeta.dino.sk> In-Reply-To: References: <35728cba-0152-9b73-77f9-48683e870bbd@m5p.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8git86 (GTK+ 2.24.33; i386-unknown-freebsd11.4) List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4FwbzL1RFpz4Y41 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 16:20:13 +1000, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-arm wrote: > On 2021-May-30 17:49:01 -0400, George Mitchell > 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