11/9/2023 0 Comments Hikey970 linux kernel^ raw reply 2528+ messages in thread * post-receive: pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora 13:29 Gitolite 0 siblings, 0 replies 2528+ messages in thread Repo: pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora The performance is acceptable if you consider that even these 4xA73 boards would still get smoked by a reasonable desktop CPU.Post-receive: pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora All the mail mirrored from help / color / mirror / Atom feed * post-receive: pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora 13:06 Gitolite 0 siblings, 0 replies 2528+ messages in thread Unfortunately the Raspberry Pi is the only board that I've come across that offers a sane GNU/Linux experience in terms of software support. For example, the HiKey960 board will aggressively thermal throttle given that all that comes with the board is a piddly copper "heatsink" that you _glue_ on the SoC. That comes with all of the relevant baggage. What should be kept in mind is that these are essentially phones-on-a-board that may or may not have been shoehorned properly to run a desktop Linux. Even then, the HiKey960 image I found was pretty unstable (randomly killed processes due to a mysterious OOM) and was contributed by a _forum user_, not the official vendor (they seem to mainly support Android). Having dabbled with a few of these boards (RK3399, Hikey960), I can say that the user experience is still quite far off from what you would expect on an x86 NUC running a GNU/Linux distro.Įven finding usable images to flash was tough on the RK3399 and near-impossible on the HiKey960. There's also the Socinext 24-core developer box. Here are a few in the $100-$300 price range:Ģx 4GB LPDDR3-1866 RAM, 4 lane PCIe M.2 80mm I'm not sure what qualifies as a NUC, but there are a few "high-end" ARM SoC boards with PCIe now. Having a standard (for AMD64) boot process is great - the various ARM devices in this space are all over the map. CPU performance seems to be about double that of the Odroid XU4 for each core in my workloads. Storage is embedded emmc (ie no need for sdcards), and I don't know what they did, but it is really fast. There are more if you care - eg you can make the enumeration order of i2c & spi etc match the same as the raspberry pi. Consequently there is a piece of level shifter hardware that does the voltage translation, but needs to know which direction the pins are being using for (like the raspberry pi, you can change this at runtime). Under the hood the Atom runs at 1.8v but the rpi pins are at 3.3v. The GPU is a standard Intel one and just works.īUT if you want to use some of the 40 pin connector then you will need some kernel patches. You can use the mainstream kernel and it works. You can grab any of the Ubuntu / Redhat / Fedora / Arch etc installers and they just work. (There is a but coming.) It just works with standard AMD64 Linux distros and uses UEFI. It uses a 64 bit Atom chip, and performs surprisingly well. They also have a 40 pin connector that is the same as the raspberry pi. I am a big fan of the upboard which starts at $90 and goes up if you add more RAM and storage.
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