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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Robert,
cubieboard5 (AKA Cubietruck Plus) has an A83T SoC, which only
got multicore for kernel 4.18 (still not relased).<br>
I made a 4.17 version with smp support backported and you can
find it here
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/community-kernel-latest/kernel/4.17.6-200.el7/">https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/community-kernel-latest/kernel/4.17.6-200.el7/</a>).<br>
Also cubietruck plus may not have HDMI support yet (I got a
patch from another user in #centos-arm and seems to be
working).<br>
<br>
Finally, the main thing about that board (about that SoC
actually), is that SATA is not native, it is an integrated
SATA-USB, so performance may be an issue.<br>
Personally I love the BananaPi M2Ultra, 2G RAM, 4 Cores and
native SATA. The only problem is that SATA support is not
integrated yet in any kernel, so it needs external patches.<br>
<br>
Pablo.<br>
<br>
P.S: this is a blog post I made a few months ago
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.centos.org/2018/05/testing-armhfp-devices/">https://blog.centos.org/2018/05/testing-armhfp-devices/</a> ,
BananaPi M3 is practically the same as Cubieboard5.<br>
P.S 2: wrt any device with AllWinner SoC, you can check
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort">https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort</a> to know what
to expect.</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 5/8/18 a las 01:09, Robert Moskowitz
escribió:<br>
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cite="mid:97820f22-3ded-a1b0-634f-dc8832452613@htt-consult.com">has
anyone here tried out the octa-core Cubieboard5?
<br>
<br>
Does Centos work with all those cores for better multitasking than
the duo-core A20 boards?
<br>
<br>
One of my Cubieboard2 is dying and I CAN replace it with one of my
test boards. But my mail server does struggle with only 2 cores
for all the virus scanning. If I had more cores, I could lift the
attachment limit, perhaps.
<br>
<br>
I just saw a deal on the Cubieboard5, cheaper than the Cubietruck.
<br>
<br>
Or info on any other quad board.
<br>
<br>
thanks
<br>
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