[HN Gopher] Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server
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       Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2022-03-11 18:51 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.netbsd.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.netbsd.org)
        
       | electroly wrote:
       | I lack the background to understand why big endian patches are
       | required. They're ARM Cortex chips, they support little endian,
       | right? Why would you use big endian?
        
         | johnklos wrote:
         | The world isn't simply filled with people who are content to do
         | the same thing as everyone else. For some, it's purely
         | aesthetic. For others, it's preferred to have an environment
         | where software that makes bad assumptions won't work. For many,
         | it's at least partly just because we can.
         | 
         | Not everyone does things just because everyone else does them.
         | If that were the case, we'd all be running Windows. Some people
         | do things because it's what everyone else isn't doing.
        
       | freedomben wrote:
       | This is really neat, although I tried for 6+ months to get the
       | SBC, NAS case, and other accessories before I finally gave up.
       | Something was always out of stock (usually the NAS case). I'm
       | sure my timing was bad, but I didn't care enough to write a
       | watcher bot.
       | 
       | Has availability improved with Pine64 stuff?
        
         | Arnavion wrote:
         | https://www.pine64.org/availability-and-shipping-status/ is the
         | canonical source for what's in stock and when it'll ship.
        
         | mrnotcrazy wrote:
         | I ordered the nas case and a rock64 pro about 2 weeks ago? And
         | it came in recently so imagine some things are in stock.
        
           | KingFelix wrote:
           | I've been running my rockpro for a few years now, it's been
           | awesome.
        
         | cf141q5325 wrote:
         | Its the pandemic. I got my NAS before without a problem.
         | Currently waiting for the tab and laptop to stock up again.
        
         | auxym wrote:
         | Got an H64 a few months ago as an alternative to a RPi.
         | Definitely much easier to get the H64 than a pi.
         | 
         | Bit disapointed by the support in general though. I expected
         | the Pine stuff to be better than "random boards from no name
         | companies on Aliexpress" in terms of HW documentation and
         | software support, but it wasn't that great. Software support is
         | totally left in the hands of the community, and I couldn't get
         | the spec for the uFL-like on-board antenna connector anywhere,
         | total silence on their forums for months.
         | 
         | I mean, it works well overall (running Armbian), but I also had
         | random aliexpress boards that had to be fully reverse
         | engineered work pretty well.
        
       | matrix12 wrote:
       | Have netbsd head running on 4 nas cases on this board with zfs.
       | It's been very solid.
        
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