On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 7:44 PM Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@qvest-digital.com> wrote: > > I’m answering back from the $dayjob address because Googlemail > cannot communicate with normal mailservers. > > >I can send you two dev boards, if you want them. The first is > >Wandboard Dual (Cortex-A9, ARMv7 with NEON), and the second is > >CubieTruck 5 (Cortex-A7, ARMv7 with NEON and VFPv4). Both work, but I > >don't use them much anymore. I've mostly moved on to Aarch64. > > That is certainly an option, if you don’t want them any more and want > to ship them to .de, although it’ll likely take longer than just getting > access on a suitable project machine. RAM is tight on them, but with > swap the compiling should work. Both seem to have serial console, good.
Nothing beats a native compile in your basement. It sure beats the snot out of a cross-compile, or an emulator like a Debian QEMU/Chroot. I switched to the dev boards after getting frustrated with cross-compiles. (So many makefiles are poorly written, and can't handle a simple cross-compile). And I run a first class swap file on all of my dev boards. SDcards are easy to replace. A SDcard lasts 6 to 9 months before you start seeing unexplained file system errors. That's around the time you know it's time to replace the SDcard. > Do they run stock Debian armhf? So the CubieTruck is embarrassingly down level: cubietruck:~$ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Linaro Description: Linaro 14.04 Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty The Wandboard is doing better: wandboard:~$ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Release: 11 Codename: bullseye I don't mind shipping to Europe if you don't mind paying the VAT. I think you will be the fourth or fifth Debian maintainer I've sent hardware to. Jeff
