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Comment by HeyMeco | Hacker News Reader

In this format I go deep down the Mailing lists, news articles and more to summarise what exciting hardware has been published and software has been merged into Linux. Also breaking down rumours and developer conferences about future SoC‘s. Hope you all find it useful!

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If you could mirror your feed on Bluesky, that would be appreciated. Some of us will not use X.

Mastodon or bust!

https://mastodon.social/@sbcwiki

Awesome, thanks!

Can you include more prices? It would give me an idea of the cost even if it is in USD. What i found most annoying about my latest search is that it is hard to find something not named raspberry or Arduino for a reasonable price. I was looking for a simple gigabit board with usb 3 to attach a removable drive to. The only one i found was raspberry pi orange 3B . Nobody else seemed to have gigabit nic with usb 3.

Why would you expect USB3 and Ethernet, fast and relatively expensive interfaces, to be attached to a cheap low-spec MCU?

Did you consider a ready-made USB3 extender over Ethernet? There is a reason they cost so much ;-/

Pi4 does two USB 3.0 ports, but you are right in that USB 3.1 is a little much for a SoM.

Its a nice little SoM, in some ways it was better than the pi5 for hardware media encoding. =3

Rockchip SoCs starting with the RK3399 can do both USB3 and Ethernet.

The only board that I own that does both at the same time is the Pine64 Quartz64 that uses the RK3566. My Pinebook Pro doesn't have an ethernet port, Orange Pi 5 Max has ethernet but doesn't use the builtin controller to provide it.

I use NetBSD on a Pine64 RockPro64 and use USB3. It has been stable:

    awge0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
            ec_capabilities=0x1<VLAN_MTU>
            ec_enabled=0x1<VLAN_MTU>
            address: 26:80:xx:xx:xx:xx
            media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex)

i see Quartz64 with 4GiB of RAM offered for $60. Sounds pretty reasonable for an SBC of this caliber. I mostly mean that something like the original RPi would be underpowered for USB3.0 and 1GbE, to say nothing of smaller devices like a $15 ESP32.

The Raspberry PI also has an intangible value from years of community goodwill. And people trust that the kernel OS support will be around in 10 years.

The NVIDIA solution is impressive... but self-immolated with the consumer price point (markets for government equipment may work.) People usually either have money or time... asking for both in a product is foolish.

The other SoM also have a long-tail market attention problem, as one could spend 2 weeks tracking unstable kernel driver problems. Or just drop in a $35 pi, and solve the task at hand. =3

Does a Banana Pi BPi-M5 fit your specs? The banana pis have pretty good networking options.

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