Robert, cubieboard5 (AKA Cubietruck Plus) has an A83T SoC, which only got multicore for kernel 4.18 (still not relased). I made a 4.17 version with smp support backported and you can find it here (https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/community-kernel-latest/kernel/4.17.6-200.el7/). Also cubietruck plus may not have HDMI support yet (I got a patch from another user in #centos-arm and seems to be working). 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. 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. Pablo. P.S: this is a blog post I made a few months ago https://blog.centos.org/2018/05/testing-armhfp-devices/ , BananaPi M3 is practically the same as Cubieboard5. P.S 2: wrt any device with AllWinner SoC, you can check https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort to know what to expect. El 5/8/18 a las 01:09, Robert Moskowitz escribió: > has anyone here tried out the octa-core Cubieboard5? > > Does Centos work with all those cores for better multitasking than the > duo-core A20 boards? > > 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. > > I just saw a deal on the Cubieboard5, cheaper than the Cubietruck. > > Or info on any other quad board. > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20180805/8459ad99/attachment-0006.html>