> Am 03.02.2015 um 14:33 schrieb Lampshade <lampsh...@poczta.fm>: > > Hello > I haven't know that Raspberry requires non-free blob to even boot. So maybe I > am going to buy something different. Now I think of ODROID-C1 from > Hardkernel. It also have price of $35. On page: > https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware > is not listed in Unsuitable section like Raspberry Pi. It has four ARM > Cortex-A5 (ARMv7) cores and 1 GB of RAM. It has 1Gbit/s Ethernet port and > doesn't consume much power. So what are you thinking about it? > 1. Does it require non-free blob to boot or communicate using Ethernet? I > don't care about GPU. > 2. Does it is solid? Or it will be damaged after few weeks of using as > server? I know, this is cheap board but I want board which will last for one > year at least. > 3. Can I expect that OpenBSD will run on it now or in future? >
1. Probably not. So far I have not seen any other current ARM device that needs blobs as extensively as the Broadcom/raspberryPi. 2. Probably. Why should it break? 3. Probably not. It’s a Amlogic SoC which I have not seen in any other board than the ODROID-C1. It’s a rather uncommon SoC. As long as no one is paid to develop for that, I don’t see anyone being interested in it. The common reply will be to „just get a BeagleBone Black“. As far as I know the BBB is the best supported board at OpenBSD. So, even if it’s slow as hell, that’s the best choice there is to have something similar to a raspberryPi. The Cubieboard 2 might be a bit more expensive than the ODROID-C1, but that one is partly supported by OpenBSD, too, iirc.
