Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Dan Kotowski dan.kotowski at a9development.com
Wed Mar 31 11:05:46 UTC 2021


> > On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 22:52 +0000, Dan Kotowski wrote:
> >
> > > > `guess SFP+ would need more special driver-attention ...
> > > >
> > > > from quick reading around the web I guess the DPAA2 also needs a
> > > >
> > > > closed source binary blob.
> > >
> > > So this actually comes from NXP, not SolidRun. Linux already has
> > >
> > > some/most of what's needed, and the license is GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-
> > >
> > > Clause so there's hope, but I haven't heard a peep from NXP and
> > >
> > > SolidRun doesn't really have the manpower to port to FreeBSD
> > >
> > > themselves.
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/
> >
> > That's actually very good news. If it's dual-licensed it can be
> >
> > included in freebsd without any drama. Still needs porting work, or
> >
> > maybe it could run using the linuxkpi stuff?
>
> The files there are a mix: a few list just:
>
> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> =====================================
>
> or:
>
> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> ================================
>
> or:
>
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>
> or:
>
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 /
>
> ( Kconfig Makefile dpaa2-ptp.[ch] dprtc-cmd.h dprtc.[ch] )
>
> The others (most) list:
>
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause)
>
> or:
>
> / SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause) */
>
> The Copyrights seem to be Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and/or
>
> NXP when documented on a file. May be they would be willing
>
> to add the BSD-3-Clause where it is missing?
>
> ===========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
>
> Mark Millard
>
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
> ( dsl-only.net went
>
> away in early 2018-Mar)

And if that fails, NXP documented everything pretty well:

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/DPAA2UM.pdf


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