Re: arm64 recommendation Pine64 or Rock64

2018-07-09 Thread Jungle Boogie
On Sun 08 Jul 2018  1:02 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Hi Misc,
> 
> I am soliciting opinions about the arm64 board which I would like to buy
> for a project. I am debating between Pine64 Pine 64 which has Allwinner
> A64/H5 processor
> 
> https://www.pine64.org/?product=pine-a64-lts

I have the pine64 and pine64-lts. Both run openBSD arm64 very well for my
limited uses. HDMI doesn't work, I don't think the gpio pins work, but search
the mailing list to see if you find anything more.

Booting the lts version will require a little extra effort:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152363766318429&w=2


> 
> or much newer model Pine64 Rock64 with Rockchip RK3328 processor
> 
> https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-media-board-computer


Search the arm@ mailing list. I think there's some info on this board there.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&r=1&w=2

> 
> I eliminated Raspberry Pi 3 early on due to the proprietary firmware and
> lack of storage drivers.
> 

OpenBSD will run on the raspberry pi 3, although I've never done so.
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/8asxq5/installing_openbsd_63_snapshots_on_raspberry_pi_3/

> 
> Best,
> Predrag
> 



Re: arm64 recommendation Pine64 or Rock64

2018-07-08 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 8 juli 2018 kl 07:04 skrev Predrag Punosevac :

>  I am in particularly keen on building an
> embedded computer which will use  Arduino UNO a microcontroller
> motherboard(s) to pool DHT22 AM2302 Digital Temperature And Humidity
> Measurement Sensor as well as HC-SR501 Human Sensor Module Pyroelectric
> Infrared. I see arduino-1.0.2p6v0.tgz among aarch64 packages so I am
> guessing somebody has already tried this. Any feed back on developing
> Arduino sketches from arm64 board?
>
>
I haven't tried it, but it should be doable.

Still, nothing prevents one from compiling the arduino hexes on another
machine and using avrdude on the arm64 to upload and later talk to the
Arduino if need be.
As for using openbsd (in my case on amd64) in general to develop arduino
stuff, it works great if you skip the IDE and use Makefiles to compile and
upload the code.

-- 
May the most significant bit of your life be positive.


arm64 recommendation Pine64 or Rock64

2018-07-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Hi Misc,

I am soliciting opinions about the arm64 board which I would like to buy
for a project. I am debating between Pine64 Pine 64 which has Allwinner
A64/H5 processor

https://www.pine64.org/?product=pine-a64-lts

or much newer model Pine64 Rock64 with Rockchip RK3328 processor

https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-media-board-computer

I eliminated Raspberry Pi 3 early on due to the proprietary firmware and
lack of storage drivers.

It seems like  Rock64 with Rockchip RK3328 is clear winner of the two.
Can somebody confirm that OpenBSD 6.3 current runs smoothly and that I
can install OS on MicroSD Card. I am in particularly keen on building an
embedded computer which will use  Arduino UNO a microcontroller
motherboard(s) to pool DHT22 AM2302 Digital Temperature And Humidity
Measurement Sensor as well as HC-SR501 Human Sensor Module Pyroelectric
Infrared. I see arduino-1.0.2p6v0.tgz among aarch64 packages so I am
guessing somebody has already tried this. Any feed back on developing
Arduino sketches from arm64 board?

Best,
Predrag