<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, at 13:54, Mark Steffen wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>One other thing I like about the Odroid N2+ and Pine64 Quartz which is <br></div><div>lacking in the Pi is support for eMMC modules (up to 128GB) -- much <br></div><div>faster (~150MB/sec read and about half that for write) and more reliable <br></div><div>than sdcards, though M.2 NVME 2280 support would be preferred of course.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>The advantage of a Pi isn't the performance, but the popularity.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I've
owned another non-pi ARM board, which required it's own out-of-tree
patches and basically became ewaste once newer
products came along.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Pis are very popular,
leading to a lot of eyes and hands getting things upstream. A lot of Pi images are widely cross-compatible between old & new devices, as well as variants (Zero, etc). There's also
projects like the Pi4 UEFI loader that let generic arm distros be used, meaning I don't need to try to find a specific Pi version of whatever OS I want to use (Fedora Server, in my case). I can download and run an installer just like on any x86 system.<br></div><div><br></div>FWIW,
Pi4 can boot from USB, removing the requirement to use SD cards. Personally, I put still put the UEFI bootloader on an old
SD card, but I installed the OS onto a USB-attached SSD.<br><br>Also, my comparative experiences between the Pi4 & PinePhone reinforces my believe that UEFI on ARM needs to become something we expect of ARM systems. We shouldn't need to download system-specific images in this day and age.<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig91988184"><div class="signature">-- <br></div><div class="signature"><b>Chris Irwin</b><br></div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">email: </span><a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@chrisirwin.ca</span></a><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"></span><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"> xmpp: </span><a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@chrisirwin.ca</span></a><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"></span><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"> web: </span><a href="https://chrisirwin.ca"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">https://chrisirwin.ca</span></a><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>