Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:59:08AM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:33:26AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> > If you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 - it woill work as a small desktop,
> > more or less silently. To fit extra disks you'll need an add on case
> > - something like the Argon which will take NVME. There are
> > bottlenecks. It's still essentially a phone SOC. It's not *free*
> > because blobs and if you want peripherals, you more or less are tied
> > to running Raspberry Pi OS.
>
> What ties me into Raspberry Pi OS for peripherals? Non-free drivers
> and/or firmware that cannot get into Debian, or just "it is not
> packaged for Debian because nobody did the work but could be"?
>
The Raspberry Pi packaged kernel and dtb and the Pi "hat" ecosystem.
The peripheral drivers thing is particularly annoying because the dtb's
are not that much - I have a GPS hat for which there is no obvious
driver except in Raspberry Pi forked kernel, for example.
Andy Cater
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