On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:35:15AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-05-19, peter green wrote: > > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > > As much ram as possible. > > Plenty of CPU power would be nice. > > A good storage interface (in order of preference SATA is better than > > USB3 which is better than USB2). > > Support in Debian kernels would be nice. > > arm64 support would be nice. > > The LeMaker Cello looks promising, but isn't shipping yet. It is a > little out of the price range you're talking about (US$299 + cost of ram > and other accessories). It has dual sata, installable ram, and mainline > support seems plausible (other similar boards have pretty full > support, from what I can see). > > > > Currently looking at the cubox i4x4. Anyone have any other suggestions? > > Some brief comparisons follow of the best perfoming boards used in the > reproducible builds network. Most only have 2GB of ram, none are arm64 > capable, all are running armhf, most are supported to some degree by > debian kernel and u-boot. Builds is average number of package builds > per day (multiple entries for multiple boards). Prices may vary > presently, but most were purchased within the last year. > > It seems like the best performance vs. price comparison is with the > Odroid-XU4, if you can bear only 2GB of RAM and a noisy fan. > > > Cubox-i4x4: > price: ~US$180 > kernel: 3.16.x in jessie > cpu: quad-core cortex-a9 (freescale imx6) > ram: 3.8GB > disk: eSATA > u-boot: vendor or patched u-boot to use 3.8GB of ram. > builds: 180, 187 > > Cubox-i4pro: > price: ~US$150? > kernel: 3.16.x in jessie > u-boot: 2014.10 in jessie > cpu: quad-core cortex-a9 (freescale imx6) > ram: 2gb > disk: eSATA > builds: 166 > > Firefly-4GB: > price: ~US$260 > kernel: 4.6.x in experimental (4.4.x worked fine, but 4.5.x broke > ethernet). > cpu: quad-core cortex-a12?/a17? (Rockchip rk3288) > ram: 4GB > disk: USB2 > u-boot: patched u-boot 2016.01 to recognize 4GB of ram > builds: 182 > > Firefly-2GB: > price: ~US$160 > kernel: 4.6.x in experimental (4.4 worked fine, but 4.5 broke > ethernet). > cpu: quad-core cortex-a12?/a17? (Rockchip rk3288) > ram: 2GB > disk: USB2 > u-boot: 2016.03 in stretch (2016.05 currently does not load boot > kernel successfully) > builds: 165, 158 > > Odroid-XU4: > price: ~US$80-90 > kernel: 4.5.x in jessie-backports > cpu: octa-core 4 x cortex-a15, 4 x cortex-a7 (Exynos 5422) > ram: 2gb > u-boot: 2016.05 in experimental > disk: USB3 > builds: 201, 181, 168 > notes: noisy fan > > BeagleBoard-X15: > price: not yet available, estimated ~US$239 > kernel: 4.6.x, currently needs custom kernel with compiled-in sata > cpu: dual-core cortex-a15 (TI AM57xx) > ram: 2gb > disk: eSATA > u-boot: 2016.03 in stretch > builds: 179 > notes: noisy fan What fan? I don't recall seeing a fan on that board. I know it can drive one if you want though.
> Wandboard quad: > price: ~US$160 > kernel: 3.16.x in jessie > u-boot: 2014.10 in jessie > cpu: quad-core cortex-a9 (freescale imx6) > ram: 2gb > disk: SATA > builds: 188 > > Orange pi plus 2: > price: ~US$50-60 > kernel: custom patched 4.4-rc6 > u-boot: 2016.03 in stretch > cpu: quad-core cortex-a7 (allwinner H3) > ram: 2gb > disk: SATA, but over USB2 > builds: 154, 148 > > > Builds per day derived from: > > > https://jenkins.debian.net/view/reproducible/job/reproducible_nodes_info/lastBuild/console -- Len Sorensen
