Pable, Thanks for responding. On 08/05/2018 05:46 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote: > > 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). > Using it as a server on if I need a local connection I use the serial console via a TTL/USB converter. Of course I would have to get the pin-out for this board. > 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. > Ouch. this is for a mail server that has extensive disk I/O. So forget this board. > 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. > Any timing on delivering the support mainline? > > 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. > I will look at it. > P.S 2: wrt any device with AllWinner SoC, you can check > https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort to know what to expect. > I use to follow it closely and did some testing for Hans when he was running the Allwinner development. I should go back and check in, so to speak. Of course if there is a quad core 64-bit ARM with sata under $100 that runs at 5V; that would do nicely! Bob > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/e7b3f522/attachment-0006.html>