On 2/24/22 11:12, Stephen John Smoogen
wrote:
It is time to upgrade
systems here, and it seems that arm32 has been
left in the scrap heap. Shame with all the Allwinner boards
I have...
Is there a list of tested aarch64 systems? I am
particularly looking
for ones with 4GB memory and sata support.
I have never been a fan of Raspberry, and with the RPi4, you
have to get
at least a sata extension board. I do like it still works
with 5v; 3a
is no problem for me with my Anker power supply, but I
suspect more will
be needed once you add the sata expansion card and drive
(thus whatever
is in the list of other aarch64 systems should have power
requirements).
The AlmaLinux aarch64 support is going to follow the
upstream support which is mainly aimed at ServerReady boards
(aka Ampere, Cavium and similar server boards).
By 'server boards', I am thinking you mean big cloud server boards?
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 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.
thanks