Supported hardware information is listed here: https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html
Each platform's link provides further information. On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 9:44 AM Mizsei Zoltán <zmiz...@extrowerk.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to build a small, portable system, not entirely different from a so > called "cyberdeck". For this project I am actively looking for the minimum > viable HW which supports OBSD. I would like to get some hints, as so far I > was unable to find the perfect hw (maybe it doesn't even exists). > > My requirements are: > - low power consumption (battery powered) > - small in sizez > - ARM / ARM64 / RISC-V or something else > - CLI > - UART > - USB > - WiFi (ideally integrated, but can be usb attached aswell) > - replaceable storage (SD card, or similar) > - ideally some onboard storage (eMMC?) > - and ideally some kind of supported display output > > I would like to either reuse the enclosure of a small handheld device which > have a display and a keyboard or print an own one and source some > off-the-shelf components and get them somehow working together. > > I was looking at minimum viable computing and found RetroBSD/DiscoBSD [1,2], > they are BSD 2.x ports for various microcontrollers (100+ Mhz, 1-2MB RAM), > but they can't realistically support me in the modern world (USB, WiFi). > > I have also considered the various SBCs in "Zero" and "Nano" form-factor, but > i was unable to find any which won't cause me headache with the > non-upstreamed FDT [3], or they aren't fully supported yet by OBSD, or it is > impossible to source them anymore, or the bootloader is some vendored fork, > which a burden to update, etc. > > I was looking at Crystal Kolipe's article-series [4] regarding the PinePhone, > but the screen is not yet usable AFAIK... > > Could you point out a hardware for this kind of use-case? I would liek to > have something smaller than a regular-Pi SBC. > > Thank You very much! > > [1] https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd/ > [2] https://github.com/chettrick/discobsd/ > [3] https://www.geniatech.com/product/xpi-3566-zero/ > [4] https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd/part_1/ > > --Z-- >
