Re: Recommendations for cheap evbarm SBCs?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 09:40:46AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> Kia ora,
> Can I have some recommendations for cheap (maybe 50 USD or less) ARM
> system that run NetBSD? 
> 
> For various reasons, I am *not* interested in
> 
>   * Raspberry Pi
>   * or any other Broadcom based system
>   * Beaglebone Black
>   * 64-bit Rockchip systems
> 
> 32-bit Rockchip based system might well suit my needs if anybody knows
> of any for sale.

There are the Allwinner-based olimex boards. One good point is that the
complete schematic and PCB files are available from olimex. Also,
a very large set of pins from the A20 are available on headers.
I'm using A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 is several projects (from a marine chartplotter
to a battery-backuped ssh gateway in the server room), they have been
very reliable with both NetBSD 9.x and 10.x

I've also tested NetBSD on the A64-OLinuXino but I didn't to anything
serious with it yet.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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