New ARM SoCs & Board Support In The Linux 4.11 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New ARM SoCs & Board Support In The Linux 4.11 Kernel

Arnd Bergmann has submitted the big batch of ARM hardware changes for the Linux 4.11 kernel merge window...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.11-ARM-Changes

[uid313]

Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, MediaTek, HiSilicon Kirin, which has the best support in the mainline Linux kernel?

[LoveRPi]

Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos, MediaTek, HiSilicon Kirin, which has the best support in the mainline Linux kernel?

The Kirin 620 has great support due to Linaro and Huawei's collaboration. Samsung Exynos is in good shape because of Tizen. The Kirin 960 will have great support but it's not there yet. Qualcomm is and probably always will be off the proprietary land. Mediatek is MIA as well. Hopefully they improve on this front and have more foresight.

[wizard69]

Now if we could only buy ARM based PC Systems. The few single board computers out there are nice but they aren't systems and frankly most people buy systems not boards.

[LoveRPi]

Now if we could only buy ARM based PC Systems. The few single board computers out there are nice but they aren't systems and frankly most people buy systems not boards.

This is possible very soon. What kind of ARM system would you want? We can probably make it.

[s.ivanov]

What kind of ARM system would you want? We can probably make it.

I'm looking for cheep fanless NAS solution two SATAs and 100MB LAN should be enough

[starshipeleven]

I'm looking for cheep fanless NAS solution two SATAs and 100MB LAN should be enough

100MB LAN on a NAS is bullshit.
Besides, the thing that needs a fan in the NAS are the hard drives, even if the processor itself can go fanless.

[starshipeleven]

This is possible very soon. What kind of ARM system would you want? We can probably make it.

Something that could be used for PC-like systems. PCIe slots, many PCIE slots.

[portablenuke]

This is possible very soon. What kind of ARM system would you want? We can probably make it.

Honestly, just something that looks mores like a normal Mini-ITX system would be nice. You know it has an Ethernet NIC attached to a bus rather then via USB, runs on an internal PSU, and has a 8x+ PCIe slot.

Some board I like the moment:
* Supermicro X11SSV-M4 (https://www.supermicro.com/products/.../X11SSV-M4.cfm)
* PC Engines APU2C4 (http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm)

For some unsolicited, blue sky configs...

Low end:
Mini-ITX form factor or less
4x 64bit cores
8GB ECC RAM
2x SATA3
8x PCIe (Optional)
1x HDMI
1x 1G Ethernet
4x USB 2
1x Serial port

High end:
Mini-ITX form factor
4x 64bit OOO superscaler cores
16GB socketable RAM (ECC supported)
4x SATA3 (2x DOM support)
1x M.2
16x PCIe
3x Displayport
2x 10G Ethernet
2x USB 2
4x USB 3
1x PS/2
1x Serial port

Misc:
Cellmodem
Bluetooth
Wireless via MiniPCIe

[portablenuke]

100MB LAN on a NAS is bullshit.
Besides, the thing that needs a fan in the NAS are the hard drives, even if the processor itself can go fanless.

100 MB is pretty close to 1G Ethernet. 800Mb == 100 MB, and 1000Mb == 125 MB.