Hi Guillaume, Am 20.01.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Guillaume Gardet: > I would like to purchase an (affordable) armv8 board but I do not know > which one. > > Could you give me some hints, please?
65 hours remaining for this 19-29$ Kickstarter project w/ Allwinner A64: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-board-super-comput > I found the HiKey: > https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/ > > which is $75 (or $99 in 2GB RAM version), plus shipping. Note there are two HiKey versions, those prices will be the LeMaker one. It might be the best option bootloader wise, but Alex complained the upstream kernel drivers were still few. Haven't received mine yet. DragonBoard 410c is the other 96Board at ~75$. As mentioned in another recent post its boot process is fairly complex and U-Boot is just emerging as alternative to LK. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:DragonBoard410c Andromeda Box Edge with Marvell IAP140 (PXA1908) has just started shipping at ~75$; no upstream kernel work to be found yet, and didn't find the vendor U-Boot sources yet. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:AndromedaBoxEdge There are further 96Boards announced, including the Bubblegum with Actions Semi S900 and the HuskyBoard with AMD Opteron A1100, but no prices or dates yet. One drawback of all Consumer Edition 96Boards is that they don't have an RJ45 on-board, just wireless, so you'll need to count in a USB Ethernet adapter unless you can and want to use Wifi. HuskyBoard (or whatever it gets called in the end) would be the first Enterprise Edition 96Board, offering more connectors but likely at higher price. The GeekBox is a nicely hackable box with Rockchip RK3368 at ~99$. Just submitted a .dts patch upstream earlier today. U-Boot for now is an ugly vendor version, but I expect that to resolve itself over time. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:GeekBox Various TV boxes with Rockchip RK3368 or Amlogic S905 are available from China in the ~60-120$ range. Expect vendor U-Boot or kernel limitations and no schematics. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton; HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
