On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 11:32, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 2/24/22 11:12, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 10:50, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It is time to upgrade systems here, and it seems that arm32 has been >> left in the scrap heap. Shame with all the Allwinner boards I have... >> >> Is there a list of tested aarch64 systems? I am particularly looking >> for ones with 4GB memory and sata support. >> >> I have never been a fan of Raspberry, and with the RPi4, you have to get >> at least a sata extension board. I do like it still works with 5v; 3a >> is no problem for me with my Anker power supply, but I suspect more will >> be needed once you add the sata expansion card and drive (thus whatever >> is in the list of other aarch64 systems should have power requirements). >> >> > The AlmaLinux aarch64 support is going to follow the upstream support > which is mainly aimed at ServerReady boards (aka Ampere, Cavium and similar > server boards). > > > By 'server boards', I am thinking you mean big cloud server boards? > > Yes things like https://www.gigabyte.com/Industry-Solutions/ampere-altra-server-solution > Outside of that most of the work takes a lot of 'you are doing this > yourself' to get working. The largest uptake for EL in Aarch64 seems to be > on Amazon Graviton systems and other cloud vendors. > > From outside of that, the EspressoBin/Machiato https://espressobin.net/ > may be the lowest amount of work.. but it is still going to be work. > > > This looks like a networks switch product, given the multiple LAN > interfaces? > > It is the only one I know of which has native SATA. Most of the other small boards just use USB as the data bus so even if they have SATA it is a device on the USB bus. > > I do know of one person that has it working on a RPi4. I just don't like > that I have to use an expansion card that does not seem to be native sata. > Plus it is Broadcom proprietary that has been work for many an OS support > team. > > I have them working with RPi4. It takes work to do so and to keep it running. And I don't have native SATA or even an expansion card. > thanks > > -- Stephen J Smoogen. Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
