Hi John El dom, 21 abr 2024 a las 23:44, John Klos (<j...@klos.com>) escribió: > > Hi, > > > "As of early 2024, NetBSD does not support the Raspberry Pi 5." > > I've lost interest in any new Raspberry Pi models since the > corporatization of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. For higher performance ARM > machines than the Raspberry Pi 4 hardware I already have, I'd go for a > Rock Pro 5 or Orange Pi 5.
Interesting... > > > "RPI4 ethernet (Broadcom GENETv5) (but the man page for genet(4) is > > missing)" > > > > Can I be sure that ethernet will work fine and reliable? Network speed? > > There were some issues last year with npf which I observed on one of my > RPi 4 systems, but that's been addressed(-ish - not fixed, but mitigated). > Fine > I've been running a RPi 4 with an uptime of 225 days as an NFS server for > a fleet of machines that're running pkgsrc bulk builds. Good! > > > "Issues and Workarounds" > > "RPI4 xhci" > > I've never run any RPi 4 hardware without UEFI, although I tried a few > times and don't remember any successes. I will do it with UEFI as everybody says it is the way to go. Perhaps the Install document should document this better in https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0/evbarm-aarch64/INSTALL.html, showing the different booting options. > > One of the things that UEFI does provide is that it makes having a serial > console very easy. My colocated RPi 4 was connected to an RPi 3 so that I > could boot the 4 with a serial console, get access to UEFI menus, boot > single user, et cetera. This, together with a GPIO on the RPi3 wired to be > able to reset the RPi 4, makes the RPi very useful as a remote server. That is a good tip, one Rpi can resurrect the other in case of hang. > > > What is your final opinion about NetBSD in that board? Are there better > > supported boards perhaps? > > I think different hardware has different uses. For almost instant booting, > low power and small size, I use NanoPi Neo. For hardware-based VPN, > for NAT / IPv6 / DNS / DHCP, et cetera, I use NanoPi R2S. For systems that > need PCIe, I use RockPro64. > > I picked the Raspberry Pi 4 with a Flirc case for my 1U server because at > the time it was not easy to find boards with 8 gigs of memory and with two > USB 3 ports. I'm using the USB 3 ports to connect two large (8 TB) > spinning rust disks in a raidframe mirror. For this configuration, it was > ideal. > > What do you plan to use your Pi for? Well, lighhttpd little personal web server, minidlna film server for home. I am also thinking to use the RPi 4 to record audio from amateur radio receivers with external USB cards (amateur radio and electronics is my other hobby) or data from SDR network receivers. Also GPIO for some automated tasks. > > > Many thanks and sorry for so many questions, just I want to be sure that I > > am > > going to make a good and useful purchase. If I purchase a Rpi 4 instead of > > Rpi 5 to have NetBSD support and It does not work ok, it will be a absolute > > nonsense. > > Indeed. It's no fun to get something we can't use. The RPi 4 is very > usable with NetBSD, although all of my experiences with things working > very well is based on using UEFI. Having received several positive reviews from you and others, I have just ordered my new RPi4, is coming home on thursday. I think I am going to have fun with it!. We'll keep in touch, I will share the experience. Regards. Ramiro. > > > I appreciate your work very much and your comments and advice will be > > welcome > > and very valuable for me. > > :) > > John Klos