Any good alternative to Raspberry for Arm64?

Klaus Küchemann maciphone2 at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 31 18:38:38 UTC 2021


> On March 31, 2021 2:21:57 PM UTC, "Klaus Küchemann" <maciphone2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> really interesting   :
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/R10:3a314eb5bb444ec019457e5aefaabb656fcb3d54

> Am 31.03.2021 um 19:31 schrieb Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology>:
> This commit does nothing for *running* on Apple Silicon.
> 
> This is about *building* FreeBSD *from macOS* on Apple Silicon. Some people want cross-builds from anything to work.
> 
> These things are completely orthogonal.
> 
> Someone working on the *running* part would generally have no reason to build FreeBSD on macOS specifically.

of course has nothing to do with *running* fbsd-OS natively on the M1.
But when I’m thinking of buying a machine for ~$1000 or even much more , I expect some 
useful features of it. Being able to run fbsd-builds from MacOS is one of those features.

Afaik currently fbsd runs in QEMU/Parallels(don’t know whether VMware has released something)
and kettenis@ of OpenBSD made it "*running*"(for development) from u-boot.
https://twitter.com/bluerise/status/1359644736483655683...
…something from the tux:  https://lwn.net/Articles/848307/

Well, compared to the Lx2k the currently max. of 16GB RAM and less cores of the M1 is something 
to think about … running native fbsd with 16 cores/64GB RAM seems to be interesting…

but Dan K. was right :  so many ugly gadgets lying around, and then  so much dollars for yet another ugly board ? :-) .. Ha Ha..while also a lot of SFP-cables still lying around here I’m actually so happy that they’re no more in use :-)
10 GB SFP+ vs. 40GB thunderbolt 3 …
 well, many things to consider  when we think about what to waste our money on next :-)….

K.












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