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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I do see that the conversation has moved on to ARMv8, but quickly to add to the 32-bit discussion...The organization that purchased the Calxeda assets reached out to me recently, and they have an enterprise-grade 32-bit product ready to ship. I can share their contact information if its desired (not sure of proper netiquette). <div><br></div><div>-David</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div>> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 12:46:25 +0000<br>> From: gordan@redsleeve.org<br>> To: arm-dev@centos.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] What's the best support hardware model ?<br>> <br>> On 2015-12-01 12:36, Karanbir Singh wrote:<br>> > On 01/12/15 12:32, Gordan Bobic wrote:<br>> >> On 2015-12-01 12:12, Karanbir Singh wrote:<br>> >>> On 01/12/15 10:11, Andreas Reschke wrote:<br>> >>>> Hi there,<br>> >>>> I want to replace some servers (SOHO, Mail-, web-, Infrastructure,<br>> >>>> X86_64, all with CentOS) with ARM-Servers. I've a /home-Server with<br>> >>>> Odroid XU4 (Cloudshell) with Fedora running fine.<br>> >>>> <br>> >>>> Are there other ARM-Devices running CentOS easy?<br>> >>> <br>> >>> there are -no- ARMv7 grade server hardware available, there are <br>> >>> single<br>> >>> board units, none of which are capable of running infrastructure<br>> >>> services for any reasonable performance. the cubietruck seems the <br>> >>> most<br>> >>> 'capable' but still falls well short of reasonable performance.<br>> >>> <br>> >>> There are however ARMv8 based server's that are available, the APM<br>> >>> Mustang class of boards are well supported in CentOS Linux 7 and are<br>> >>> perhaps the most widely available.<br>> >>> <br>> >>> this does however take into consideration my own interpretation of <br>> >>> what<br>> >>> might be considered 'reasonable performance'.<br>> >> <br>> >> ARMv7 server grade hardware does exist. It wasn't so long ago that<br>> >> I was helping the guys at Boston get RedSleeve 6 getting up and<br>> >> running on their Viridis servers:<br>> >> <br>> >> https://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/default.aspx<br>> > <br>> > I believe the viridis platform has been discontinued for a few years <br>> > now,<br>> <br>> Has it? I seem to recall getting RSEL6 running on it 4 years ago,<br>> and it has had a refresh since then. If it has been discontinued<br>> it must have been relatively recently.<br>> <br>> And decent ARMv8 hardware is not actually that easily available, at<br>> least in UK. There's a lot of posturing and press releases but very<br>> little actual hardware to show for it. And if you can ever find it<br>> commercially it is disproportionately expensive for what it is.<br>> <br>> Gordan<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Arm-dev mailing list<br>> Arm-dev@centos.org<br>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev<br></div></div> </div></body>
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