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<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Obviously this has changed. When I start the next project I will have to check out the wikipedia list.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, June 24, 2019, 12:36:04 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div><br></div><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none">Interesting comparison table on Wikipedia, showing which single-board<br clear="none">computers run on mainline Linux kernels:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers#Operating_system" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers#Operating_system</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">The picture's a little grim. Only these qualify:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">phyBOARD-Wega<br clear="none">phyBOARD-Mira<br clear="none">Embedded Now Piconium<br clear="none">BeagleBone Black<br clear="none">Arrow Electronics Dragonboard 410c<br clear="none">DreamPlug<br clear="none">Gizmo Board<br clear="none">Inforce IFC6410<br clear="none">Intel Galileo Gen 2<br clear="none">MinnowBoard<br clear="none">PC Engines APU<br clear="none">ESPRESSObin<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Of those, the PC Engines APU and MinnowBoard products line are the most<br clear="none">real-computer-compliant, which is not surprising since they use low-power<br clear="none">AMD and Intel Atom x86_64 CPUs, respectively. The Inforce IFC6410 isn't<br clear="none">bad, either.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Which gets me back to my main point which is that you still aren't able<br clear="none">to do Linux on aarch64 without grievous compromises including a bunch of<br clear="none">proprietary software and non-standard kenels. You still need x86_64,<br clear="none">and personally I still think it's still a mistake to go with ARM for<br clear="none">anything that matters. (That was the case a few years ago when I last<br clear="none">seriously considered ARM, and I'm sad to see it's still the case now.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But admittedly, none of the less-compromised alternatives has come to<br clear="none">market at a $35 price point.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">[0] You could probably RAID1 a pair of USB devices, but really now.<br clear="none">[1] <a shape="rect" href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md</a><br clear="none">[2] <a shape="rect" href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot</a><div class="ydpd340fa4dyqt0837678454" id="ydpd340fa4dyqtfd09135"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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