I've been lurking for a while hoping to see someone call out some specs, but I don't recall seeing them. My apologies in advance of this is a redundant question.
I'm interested in inexpensive hardware to test for arm64/aarch64, but I'm having trouble finding them.
For example, [1] lists a X-C1 Basic dev board, but its $1495 USD [2] (add $1000 USD for the Plus kit). Another example is the AMD Opteron A1100 dev kit at $3000 USD [6]. As another example, I purchased both an HTC 510 Desire and a Samsung Galaxy Core-Prime because both were supposed to be 64-bit ARMv8 [3,4]. But after the press release and conversion to the US market, they arrived as 32-bit ARMv7.
First question... Does Cent maintain a list of inexpensive hardware for testing? If so, would someone point me to it? I understand the list is subjective and it will become stale over time. That's a different problem (and a problem I wish I had).
Second question... Or, is it possible to get SSH access to one of the machines provided by Applied Micro or AMD [1,6]? GNU has a compile farm (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm) I can test with, and I'm wondering if Cent does the same.
Last question... Has anyone tried using the Android TV boxes [5] for testing? They appear to be inexpensive (around $100 USD) and some appear to be ARMv8 with multiple 64-bit cores (Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57).
(Its definitely like Perrin said, "Hardware really is the best sort of gift..." [6]).
Thanks in advance.
[1] http://seven.centos.org/2015/03/centos-linux-7-and-arm/ [2] http://www.apm.com/products/data-center/x-gene-family/x-c1-development-kits/... [3] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8434/htc-announces-desire-510-first-64bit-andr... [4] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/htc-desire-snapdragon-qualcomm-armv8,27552.... [5] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22android+tv%22+%2264-bit%22+%22arm%22+site... [6] http://seven.centos.org/2015/06/amd-seattle-and-centos-on-aarch64/