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I pre-ordered one of these mostly because it exposes dual 5 Gbps Ethernet and PCIe Gen 4... so the expansion capabilities and I/O are the best of any Arm system
by geerlingguy 2y ago
I pre-ordered one of these mostly because it exposes dual 5 Gbps Ethernet and PCIe Gen 4... so the expansion capabilities and I/O are the best of any Arm system I've seen short of $1,500+ Ampere systems.
But the marketing bar graphs and lack of efficiency data, along with not (yet) seeing any of the board firmware (says it uses EDKII) makes me a little worried.
I've been burned buying new Radxa hardware in the past, without ever seeing software support materialize later (or half-implemented features that only work on one or two barely-maintained distros...).
But I would love to have another option for an efficient Arm board. Hopefully the efficiency is also close to M1 which is pretty amazing.
- eyjafjallajokul 2y agoI was going to tell you to wait for Jeff Geerling to do this first otherwise you’re in for a world of hurt. Then I read your username. Big fan :)
- packetlost 2y agoRadxa did pretty well with their RK3588-based boards, but we'll see if this gets the same treatment. I really want to preorder one, but I'm also highly skeptical about software support. I don't care about "open source" firmware or anything, I just want to be able to boot mainline Linux and use all of the advertised features.
- mikae1 2y agoSo it was true :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41885705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41885705 Really looking forward to your review of this.