Re: SolidRun HoneyComb LX2K

[peter green <plugwash@p10link.net>]

On 16/01/2020 16:35, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Does anyone have one of these?
>
> https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/honeycomb-workstation/

I don't have one, but two things strike me

1. The price, £750 basically puts this at a level where you would have to be a total arm fanatic to buy one as a general desktop/server machine (buying one for an arm buildbox may be justifiable to some, so might buying one as a networking role).
2. Support for upstream stuff still seems to be "work in progress", combined with the above high price I would consider the risk of orphaning to be non-negligible.

> Mini-ITX
> 16 x Coretex-A72 @ 2 GHz (NXP)
> 2 x SoDIMM RAM slots
> 1 x M.2 SSD
> 1 x PCIe x8 slot
> 1 x Gigabit ethernet
> 4 x SFP+ ports
> 4 x SATA
> etc. etc.