[conspire] Oh yeah? Raspberry Pi 4 Model B arrives with up to 4GBRAM

[paulz at ieee.org]

 A couple years ago, a speaker on single board computers said the biggest difference between a Pi and BeagleBone was the the BeagleBone had mounting holes.
Obviously this has changed.  When I start the next project I will have to check out the wikipedia list.

    On Monday, June 24, 2019, 12:36:04 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  


Interesting comparison table on Wikipedia, showing which single-board
computers run on mainline Linux kernels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers#Operating_system

The picture's a little grim.  Only these qualify:

phyBOARD-Wega
phyBOARD-Mira
Embedded Now Piconium
BeagleBone Black
Arrow Electronics Dragonboard 410c
DreamPlug
Gizmo Board
Inforce IFC6410
Intel Galileo Gen 2
MinnowBoard
PC Engines APU
ESPRESSObin

Of those, the PC Engines APU and MinnowBoard products line are the most
real-computer-compliant, which is not surprising since they use low-power
AMD and Intel Atom x86_64 CPUs, respectively.  The Inforce IFC6410 isn't
bad, either.

Which gets me back to my main point which is that you still aren't able
to do Linux on aarch64 without grievous compromises including a bunch of
proprietary software and non-standard kenels.  You still need x86_64,
and personally I still think it's still a mistake to go with ARM for
anything that matters.  (That was the case a few years ago when I last
seriously considered ARM, and I'm sad to see it's still the case now.)

But admittedly, none of the less-compromised alternatives has come to
market at a $35 price point.


[0] You could probably RAID1 a pair of USB devices, but really now.
[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md
[2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot


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