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Fling on PINE64 Quartz64 Model A

Info
Required and supported hardware

USB devices

Preparation

Serial console access

'screen' terminal emulator
'minicom' terminal emulator

Updating UEFI firmware

Downloading firmware

Install ESXi-Arm

Info

The PINE64 Quartz64 Model A board is a small form factor single board computer (SBC) based on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC with 4 x Cortex-A55 cores 
supporting up to 8GiB RAM. The SBC also has USB2, USB3, PCIe, and GbE connectivity.

See 

https://www.pine64.org/quartz64a/

The anticipated use case is "Far Edge": e.g. a virtualized IoT gateway.

Required and supported hardware

Minimally, you need:

PINE64 Quartz64 Model A

4GiB or 8GiB

1 x micro SD card for UEFI firmware
1 x USB drive for installer ISO and actual ESXi installation
1 x USB NIC
1 x USB TTL serial cable for serial console

The following hardware is supported:

USB storage
USB networking
Serial console

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