On 2021/08/14 10:06, John DiMarco wrote: > Thanks, Mark. > > It sounds like I could make RPi4 work, though I'd prefer an SD-based > installation if that's possible. I'm wondering if there's a better > choice than RPi4. If not, I'll go with that. 8GB isn't an issue for me, > I can work with as little as 1GB. > > Are there any SBCs other than RPi4 for which the default miniroot works > without pre-hackery? Or do they all require the addition of customized dtb's? > > The install instructions suggest that there is some preexisting support > in the miniroot for Allwinner and Rockchip 33xx SBCs - if so, which ones? > Pine A64+? Rock64?
SD-based does work in rpi4, there are some advantages to USB-based but it should be fairly acceptable if you're not doing much disk io. USB ports work (as well as USB works on OpenBSD). Network is pretty fast though some (but not all) people using it with vlans have had poor latency. The framebuffer on HDMI ports works for console and X. There are better machines but it seems to me that most of them involve more hackery, and some of the others use "big/little" cpu cores which the scheduler doesn't do anything special to support which might be a problem in some cases.
