Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Klaus Küchemann maciphone2 at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 31 14:22:03 UTC 2021


> Am 31.03.2021 um 14:18 schrieb Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology>:
> 
> On March 31, 2021 12:43:15 AM UTC, Thomas David Rivers <rivers at dignus.com> wrote:
>> I'm wondering why the Mac M1 machines haven't been mentioned?
>> (Like the newest MacMini...)
>> 
>> Would they not make a good ARM64 machine?
> 
> Currently only using virtualization.
> 
> Someone would have to make lots of drivers to run bare metal. OpenBSD and NetBSD have some already, but I'm not aware of any efforts in FreeBSD yet.
> 
> Apple hardware is *very* non-standard, they don't even use the GIC, having a custom interrupt controller instead.

well, I have mentioned M1 in post #9 of this long thread as the most interesting …..

 really interesting   :
https://reviews.freebsd.org/R10:3a314eb5bb444ec019457e5aefaabb656fcb3d54


> Am 31.03.2021 um 00:52 schrieb Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski at a9development.com>:
> 
> Yes, I'm currently swapping between a CACE AirPcap NX (otus) and a Microchip LAN7800 EVB (muge) from https://www.microchip.com/Developmenttools/ProductDetails/EVB-LAN7800. #
> They're ugly but functional.

lol, that made my day :-) Ha Ha …
my whole desk is cluttered with all the ugly crap,
but thanks to Apple, it looks impressive all in all :-)

Regards

K.





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