[HN Gopher] Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server ___________________________________________________________________ Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server Author : todsacerdoti Score : 45 points Date : 2022-03-11 18:51 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.netbsd.org) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.netbsd.org) | electroly wrote: | I lack the background to understand why big endian patches are | required. They're ARM Cortex chips, they support little endian, | right? Why would you use big endian? | johnklos wrote: | The world isn't simply filled with people who are content to do | the same thing as everyone else. For some, it's purely | aesthetic. For others, it's preferred to have an environment | where software that makes bad assumptions won't work. For many, | it's at least partly just because we can. | | Not everyone does things just because everyone else does them. | If that were the case, we'd all be running Windows. Some people | do things because it's what everyone else isn't doing. | freedomben wrote: | This is really neat, although I tried for 6+ months to get the | SBC, NAS case, and other accessories before I finally gave up. | Something was always out of stock (usually the NAS case). I'm | sure my timing was bad, but I didn't care enough to write a | watcher bot. | | Has availability improved with Pine64 stuff? | Arnavion wrote: | https://www.pine64.org/availability-and-shipping-status/ is the | canonical source for what's in stock and when it'll ship. | mrnotcrazy wrote: | I ordered the nas case and a rock64 pro about 2 weeks ago? And | it came in recently so imagine some things are in stock. | KingFelix wrote: | I've been running my rockpro for a few years now, it's been | awesome. | cf141q5325 wrote: | Its the pandemic. I got my NAS before without a problem. | Currently waiting for the tab and laptop to stock up again. | auxym wrote: | Got an H64 a few months ago as an alternative to a RPi. | Definitely much easier to get the H64 than a pi. | | Bit disapointed by the support in general though. I expected | the Pine stuff to be better than "random boards from no name | companies on Aliexpress" in terms of HW documentation and | software support, but it wasn't that great. Software support is | totally left in the hands of the community, and I couldn't get | the spec for the uFL-like on-board antenna connector anywhere, | total silence on their forums for months. | | I mean, it works well overall (running Armbian), but I also had | random aliexpress boards that had to be fully reverse | engineered work pretty well. | matrix12 wrote: | Have netbsd head running on 4 nas cases on this board with zfs. | It's been very solid. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-11 23:00 UTC)