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<div>Is one allowed to post commercial links?<br>
Regards, Tony<br>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:34 PM +0200, "Gordan Bobic"
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<div class="PlainText">On 2016-09-18 09:46, Nick Hardiman wrote:<br>
> Which 64 bit consumer-size board is the easiest to work with now?<br>
> <br>
> I want to buy a few small ARMv8 boards to run CentOS on. Seems like a<br>
> reasonable idea to offload simple services onto simple boards. Is this<br>
> page still accurate?<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64">https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64</a><br>
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> I don’t really know why 64 bits gets all the attention at this small<br>
> scale, but that does seem to be where people are headed.<br>
> I’ve tried a few 32 bit boards, and it is fiddly work. I end up<br>
> spending more time on the bootloader and kernel compilation and less<br>
> time at the application level.<br>
> <br>
> AFAICT, progress is being made getting Odroid C2 support into the<br>
> kernel. Not so sure about Hikey and RPi3. Looks like Redhat is working<br>
> with Applied Micro X-gene - I guess that's for the data center market.<br>
> <br>
> Any suggestions?<br>
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AFAIK the only boards that will be officially supported will<br>
be ones that support UEFI. I'm sure many others will have<br>
images made available for them by the community.<br>
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Personally, I use a Gigabyte MP30-AR0 (Note: AR1 is the same<br>
board as the AR0 but with UEFI firmware. You can flash the<br>
firmware back and forth as you want, and you can chain load<br>
UEFI firmware from u-boot (that is what I do). You can put<br>
up to 128GB of RAM into that and with 8 rather performant<br>
cores you can probably run whatever you want to compartmentalize<br>
in containers (or VMs if you don't mind the performance hit<br>
that goes with it).<br>
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The only downside of the Gigabyte MP30 is that the board<br>
costs about £500 (not including RAM, it takes ECC DDR3<br>
UDIMMs/RDIMMs).<br>
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Gordan<br>
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