The Cubieboard works after a lot of effort, but the BBB is far less hassle. I own both and the Beagle Bone Black just works. Highly recommended.
-- Edwin (on the move) > On Feb 3, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Patrick Wildt <m...@patrick-wildt.de> wrote: > > >> 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. > >
