[yocto] Seeking recommendation for low cost dev board with Gigabit Ethernet that as a Yocto BSP

Dimitris Tassopoulos dimtass at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 14:13:29 PDT 2019


Hi Bob,

for low cost BSPs you can have a look at some allwinner boards from
FriendlyElec and OrangePi.

I've created meta layer to support most of the H2, H3 and H5 arm cores here:
https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-allwinner-hx/

So you can grab any of those boards that has a GbE. Now, regarding the need
of binary firmwares
for the NICs I can't tell you which of the boards the do fill your needs,
but I guess you can have
a look.

Some boards the support GbE are:
FriendlyElec:
- NanoPi-Neo2 ~20USD (http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO2
)
- NanoPi-K1 Plus ~35USD (
http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_K1_Plus)
- NanoPi Neo Plus2 ~35USD (
http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Plus2)

OrangePi:
- Orange Pi Zero Plus ~15EUR (
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-Zero-Plus-H5-Chip-Quad-Core-Open-source-Cortex-A53-512MB-development-board-beyond/1553371_32828347476.html
)
- Orange Pi PC2 ~20USD (
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/New-Orange-Pi-PC-2-H5-64bit-Support-the-Lubuntu-linux-and-android-mini-PC-Beyond/1553371_32761481418.html
)
- Orange Pi Zero Plus2 ~24USD (
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-Zero-Plus-2-H5-Quad-core-Bluetooth-mini-PC-Beyond-Raspberry-Pi-2-Wholesale/1553371_32801249806.html
)
- Orange Pi Prime ~41USD (
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-Prime-Development-Board-H5-Quad-core-Support-linux-and-android-Beyond-Raspberry-Pi-2/1553371_32803048527.html
)

Soon (probably this weekend), I'll release a new meta layer that supports
the NanoPi-Neo4 board,
which has an RK3399 + GbE. If you're interested I'll send you the link for
the repo. That costs ~50USD
(http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO4)

Now, regarding the H2, H3 and H5 I do also support RT kernels for the 4.14
and the 4.19.
So these are your options:
- 4.14.78 SMP
- 4.19.21 SMP
- 4.14.78 PREEMPT-RT
- 4.19.15 PREEMPT-RT

I do updates from time to time on the layer, but not that often.

Hope that helps a bit.

Dimitris


Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> schrieb am Fr., 22. März 2019, 18:12:

> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone recommend a ~$50 dev board that runs Yocto and has a single
> Gigabit Ethernet port?
>
> The boards we are aware of either have 100Mbit Ethernet, don't meet the
> price target, or has a Gigabit Ethernet port that has reduced
> capabilities via firmware (Ethernet driver isn't open source).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bob
>
>
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