re: ARM server w/ SATA ?

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

David Young writes:
> I was looking at the SolidRun HoneyComb LX2 because I can load it up
> with RAM, it has four sockets for SATA drives (I have a couple of
> newish drives that I want to reuse right away), and I can put it into a
> standard mini-ITX enclosure.
>
> In dmesgs for the HoneyComb LX2 at NYC*BUG, looks like support is pretty
> good.  The board has a copper gigabit port and 4 SFPs, but I don't see
> the kernel attach any of them.  I guess the NXP QorIQ networking is not
> supported?  I guess it's no problem, I can put a wm(4) into the PCIe
> slot.
>
> The LX2 is fairly spendy.  I am also looking at the Firefly ITX-3588J.
> It's based on the Rockchip RK3588.  Looking again at dmesgd, the RK3588
> seems to have good support except possibly for the SATA controller?

LX2 is pretty great.  it also has a pcie slot and an m.2 slot.

the driver is quite complex but the linux version is correctly
licensed for someone to port to netbsd.  :-)

RK3588 support is still starting in netbsd, so, it probably would
involve more porting/fixing work, but the single core perf will
be significantly faster..

don't think this helps you, sorry  :-)


.mrg.