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

[Bob Cochran]

On 3/22/19 5:13 PM, Dimitris Tassopoulos wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> for low cost BSPs you can have a look at some allwinner boards from 
> FriendlyElec and OrangePi.


That's excellent.  Thank you.  Do any of these boards have accessible 
JTAG for debugging the kernel?  Is this something you have done in 
supporting the BSPs?    I see a UART port is listed as a debug port.  Is 
the idea to use KGDB via this port?

Bob


>
> 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 <mailto: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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