From: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ARM hardware and SATA
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:20:50 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <644326F9-F36C-407A-9436-7F2F58909810@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQ9t7g+r1qXWVh+FYou2AXKoYpUtiC5j+gFLfps6vX9Kntzww@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 12 Dec 2019, at 17:31, Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost
> certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service).
> Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always.
>
> Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor
> could be expendable.
>
> ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I
> believe to be a very sound foundation.
>
> Thanks for any and all comments.
This is very likely overkill, but
https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ <https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/>
https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/product/detail?partId=SOCI-0000003&mpn=SC0FQAA-B-000 <https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/product/detail?partId=SOCI-0000003&mpn=SC0FQAA-B-000>
It’s a µATX PC-style motherboard, with what looks like standard PC power connector.
It has a 24-core ARM8 CPU, up to 64GB RAM (4 DIMM slots), onboard 1 Gbps Ethernet, looks like two on-board SATA ports, and (most usefully) 1 PCIe x16 and 2 PCIe x1 slots.
You could populate the x16 PCIe slot with an M.2 carrier board, like
https://amfeltec.com/pci-express-gen-3-carrier-board-for-m-2-ssd <https://amfeltec.com/pci-express-gen-3-carrier-board-for-m-2-ssd>
to give you a decent amount of high-speed SSD storage?
The motherboard appears to have been sponsored by Linaro, which is some sort of Linux-on-ARM booster organisation, so it’s likely got decent documentation and/or sample drivers available.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-12 6:31 Lucio De Re
2019-12-12 8:30 ` [9fans] " Dan Cross
2019-12-12 8:54 ` Bakul Shah
2019-12-12 12:15 ` Juan Cuzmar
2019-12-12 12:43 ` hiro
2019-12-12 13:02 ` Juan Cuzmar
2019-12-12 13:14 ` Matthew Singletary
2019-12-12 14:10 ` Dan Cross
2019-12-12 14:14 ` Juan Cuzmar
2019-12-12 13:20 ` David Arnold [this message]
2019-12-12 15:14 ` hiro
2019-12-12 15:24 ` hiro
2019-12-12 15:31 ` hiro
2019-12-13 7:08 ` Dan Cross
2019-12-13 10:28 ` hiro
2019-12-14 6:13 ` David Arnold
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