Good ${greeting_time}, Benny!

02 Jun 2020 23:27:04, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> If I were serious about ARM based PCs I would be more interested
 MK>> in what Alexey referred to in an earlier post today.
 BP> is ther raspberry pi without arm cpus ?

No. And for now, ARM64 (aarch64, ARMv8) is the most advanced architecture.

 MK>> Also it would need to have at least one m.2 nvme compatible slot
 MK>> for the main boot disk instead of the micro sd interface.

2 MK: I'd rather have PCI-E x4 (or even x1) slot.

 BP> i have the add one card in a rpi2 and tested rpi3, will like to
 BP> have gentoo on it, just where it gentoo is precompiled on some
 BP> other computer i have

So what prevents you from doing that?

 MK>> I think we should leave the micro sd cards for digital cameras and
 MK>> crippled so-called smart devices that Android lives on.
 BP> sure just PXE boot then :)

SD cards have one important advantage: they can work in the SPI mode, thus
allowing bare CPUs (all modern CPUs a really SoCs) interact with them.

And, anyway, having microSD slot is much better than soldered eMMC chip.

 MK>> I plan to compile the Husky stuff once it arrives.
 BP> it will be a dream machine in the pocket :)

I almost have one. Alas, for now it's just RPi4-4Gb.


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