04-28-2016, 05:18 PM
(04-28-2016, 04:37 PM)baryluk Wrote: I am also thinking about creating pine cluster. Probably 17 boards too. Mostly for distributed algorithms development (databases, programming language research, raytracing, etc). But I am still thinking between Pine64+ and RPi3 B. Pi people and Broadcom promised to support PXE booting without sd card (you can already do nfs root over network, but you still need to use a bootloder using small sd card), by just putting few pxe related bits (tftp client, dhcp client, ethernet driver, etc) in the rom/flash itself. I doubt we will see this on Pine. Maybe on next version of the board, which will not happen this year for sure.
This is an interesting topic, I will check with Allwinner folks but don't expect an answer till next week due to long weekend holiday. Even assume not supported, it is easy to put a small SPI NOR Flash at Pi2 bus as bootloader for booting (A64 support this method).