On 2/24/22 11:49, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 11:32, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:

On 2/24/22 11:12, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

Outside of that most of the work takes a lot of 'you are doing this yourself' to get working. The largest uptake for EL in Aarch64 seems to be on Amazon Graviton systems and other cloud vendors.

From outside of that, the EspressoBin/Machiato https://espressobin.net/ may be the lowest amount of work.. but it is still going to be work.

This looks like a networks switch product, given the multiple LAN interfaces?

It is the only one I know of which has native SATA. Most of the other small boards just use USB as the data bus so even if they have SATA it is a device on the USB bus.

I used Cubietech and Odroid with native sata for arm32, and sure enough both have 64bit with sata:

Cubieboard6 and 7
Odroid HC4

The Odroid looks better than Cubie and at only $80 from Ameridroid

https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-hc4

and only 16w with active samba use from power benchmarks. That is important to me.

I would be willing to get one for testing. I have a Odroid hc1 that was a bit of a challenge to get Centos7-arm working on it, but did.

I do know of one person that has it working on a RPi4. I just don't like that I have to use an expansion card that does not seem to be native sata. Plus it is Broadcom proprietary that has been work for many an OS support team.

I have them working with RPi4. It takes work to do so and to keep it running. And I don't have native SATA or even an expansion card.

The person that pointed me here, has sata on his 2 RPi4.