Will it support Proxmox or OPNSense?

rev · January 3, 2025, 4:19pm

I pre-ordered one (again, without knowing if mainline-support will come).

Since the RK3588 the mainline-support was very lackluster, still is (even tho involved people give a lot of their resources to it). Now with the RK3588 situation worsened, thanks to the parts being used in war-drones,

I have to ask.

With the PCI-E (Gen4 8 lane) giving the options for nearly any NIC you can get, this would open a world of opportunities for building a router/firewall/server platform. With low power requirements.

But then, again, what (apart of UEFI and not only device-tree) level of hardware-support for kernels/linux/FreeBSD will we get here (or will we be stuck with OpenWRT and blobs in a far future) and on what time-frame can we have our expectations?

Thank you for a non-marketing and instead a direct answer to this.

meco · January 4, 2025, 10:36am

Officially? Not yet

Unofficially: https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Port has an arm64 iso which should just work with UEFI

rev · January 17, 2025, 10:07am

Thank you @meco! I will try that out when I have the hardware.

hrw · January 18, 2025, 9:31am

UEFI is not magic trick making things work.

Nearly every aarch64 system boots using EFI (or can do) in either EDK2 or U-Boot.

Having proper support in mainline kernel is always needed. And then having thing enabled in distribution kernel.

NanoPC-T6 which I have on desk can boot using UEFI+ACPI. But it does not give it video output on Fedora 40 cause there is no support for it in used kernel.