On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:18:27AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Long story short: 14 months passed and we didn't get any LeMaker Cello > boards (http://www.96boards.org/product/cello/). But around pentecost > we got a mail that we will get LeMaker HiKey960 boards > (http://www.96boards.org/product/hikey960/) instead and that they > more or less already got shipped. > > The boards were sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise > (https://www.hpe.com/) and will be hosted by the students association > SOSETH (https://sos.ethz.ch/) at ETH Zurich (https://www.ethz.ch/). awesome, thanks to everyone involved!
> But the most severe implication of this switch from a EE to a CE board
> I noticed only at home when I got my hands dirty on one of the boards:
> The Consumer Edition does not have any Ethernet RJ45 port, only wifi.
> :-(
eeks
> I don't think we want to rely on wifi, so we likely will also need 8x
> USB 3.0 (A, not C) Gigabit Ethernet adapters, probably around 20€-30€
> each. *sigh*
yup.
> > For those we will need to get SSDs too, so leaving some funds for that
> > would be useful.
>
> They have an PCIe M.2 slot, but also 32 GB "UFS Flash" on board. The
> current idea (by Holger) is to add a 120GB/128GB M.2 SSD to each board
> for additional storage.
and format those 120gb so that we'll use 90gb of it for /srv and keep the
rest unused for the SSD to wear out…
> I've tried to get Debian installed on one of these HiKey960 boards.
did you manage? :)
> * Flashing a new OS needs to be done over the USB C OTG socket with
> Android style fastboot/adb methods. :-( As far as I understand it,
> that means I have to flash an image and can't use the Debian
> Installer for that. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
eeks. I'll leave this for others to shed a light on…
> * As I don't have an appropriate USB-A to USB-C cable I'll first have
> to buy one. Afterwards I can see if I can get anything working on
> these boards.
more sigh :)
> So far for today. More maybe tomorrow.
Thanks a lot for all your work so far!
--
cheers,
Holger
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