Recommended arm hardware (mostly for compilation)?

[Dan Kotowski]

> If someone’s looking for horsepower between those options, consider the LX2K from SolidRun,
> while current support for FreeBSD is unknown to me .

Reviving an old thread...

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>>> World build completed on Wed Jul  8 02:47:59 UTC 2020
>>> World built in 6897 seconds, ncpu: 16, make -j16
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Stable enough to buildworld:

* AHCI/SATA and USB all seem to work just fine

But:

* Firmware is still a moving target
* No DPAA2-MC and no drivers means no onboard netifs
* Still not properly mapping interrupts behind SMMU (PCI and NVMe are no-go until that's resolved)
* No i2c (set that testing aside to focus on interrupts, probably should revisit)
* No on-board uSD+eMMC in OS (works fine for loading firmware, but also set aside to focus on interrupts)

Others using it seem to be running Linux reasonably fine, including a full Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with Chromium - there's even 1 person working on stabilizing a Thunderbolt 3 controller! All of this laden with bugs and instabilities, but it's a lot closer today than it was when this thread began :)