On 01/20/2016 07:37 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
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
IMHO that one looks very promising. It's the first device that's going
to be widely available and cheap enough for a hobbyist community to
actually emerge around an ARMv8 system.
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.
Upstream you basically have a serial port and RAM access. Oh, and an
interrupt controller ;). No MMC, no USB, no graphics, no .... you name it
Downstream there is some old vendor tree that I haven't looked at and a
4.4 based tree. However, I did run into several issues with that one and
reported them:
https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221
https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222
https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223
So depending on the amount of time you want to sink into getting a
usable system, I'm not 100% sure the HiKey a great choice ;). Especially
given how much of the code is upstream at this point in time.
Alex
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