Banana Pi BPI-M7 - A thin Rockchip RK3588 SBC with dual 2.5GbE, M.2 NVMe storage, HDM 2.1, and more - CNX Software
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Banana Pi is working on the upcoming Banana Pi BPI-M7 SBC powered by Rockchip RK3588 SoC whose low profile design reminds me of boards from Khadas such as

The Banana Pi BPI-M7 single board computer is equipped with up to 32GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash, and features an M.2 2280 socket for one NVMe SSD, three display interfaces (HDMI, USB-C, MIPI DSI), two camera connectors, dual 2.5GbE, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, a few USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header for expansion.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1011·
    11 months ago

    It looks like it’s ~$100. But when I’ve used similar SBCs in the past the issue ends up being drivers. Even if something is faster and better specced than a RasPi, you end up outside that ecosystem with very little in the way of support for whatever oddball hardware your board has.

    • ItCantBeThatEasy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      11 months ago

      I have a BananaPi M3 and the software support was horrific. Getting a kernel to compile with the hacked drivers and firmware was like black magic.

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Orange pi worked quite well but I mostly used python & GPIO.

        Oh yeah, I had to debug and recompile that GPIO lib so no it was kind of not very user friendly…

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      For $100 you can buy a micro form factor Optiplex PC which has several orders of magnitude more computing power, but it does have a bit larger form factor and less ports than what OP listed.

      • scarilog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        And power, that’s a pretty important metric if you plan on running something 24/7.

      • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Your OptiPlex will have considerable PCIE expansion though, so you could slot in a second hand dual-port nic if you wanted to (10GbE might be easier to find than 2.5 and they are still relatively inexpensive as second hand hardware)

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      142·
      11 months ago

      SBCs in the past the issue ends up being drivers. (…) outside that ecosystem with very little in the way of support for whatever oddball hardware your board has.

      The RPi does have a nice ecosystem but the trick is to pick a board supported by Armbian - that will ensure future kernel updates and low level things working fine. For instance I’ve been using a NanoPi M4v2 since 2018 with a RK3399 CPU mind that at that time it already had a PCIe x2 interface, 4GB of RAM and was cheaper than the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ from the same year that had Ethernet shared with the USB bus.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Cool? I’m seeing $165, but my original comment was based on the article as it existed five months ago. I’m not sure the board was even shipping at that time