arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 3 16:15:04 UTC 2019


On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 10:12, <greg at unrelenting.technology> wrote:
>
> The Marvell/SolidRun MACCHIATObin is an affordable 4-core (Cortex A72)
> with DDR4 (takes one full size DIMM), SATA, USB 3.0 and PCIe.
> And most importantly, excellent firmware support (upstream EDK2+TrustedFirmware).
> The PCIe is rather quirky (I really should make a proper blog post already)
> but I have it working with a Radeon RX 480.
> It can be a decent developer desktop if you're fine with
> "2013 era ultrabook" levels of performance :D

Yeah, it looks like a pretty good platform, if we can get past "quirky
PCIe" to "buy x, y, z, install the image from https://..., and it will
just work". I think the performance should be fine, stability and
usability are more important.


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