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). -David > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 12:46:25 +0000 > From: gordan at redsleeve.org > To: arm-dev at centos.org > Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] What's the best support hardware model ? > > On 2015-12-01 12:36, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > On 01/12/15 12:32, Gordan Bobic wrote: > >> On 2015-12-01 12:12, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >>> On 01/12/15 10:11, Andreas Reschke wrote: > >>>> Hi there, > >>>> I want to replace some servers (SOHO, Mail-, web-, Infrastructure, > >>>> X86_64, all with CentOS) with ARM-Servers. I've a /home-Server with > >>>> Odroid XU4 (Cloudshell) with Fedora running fine. > >>>> > >>>> Are there other ARM-Devices running CentOS easy? > >>> > >>> there are -no- ARMv7 grade server hardware available, there are > >>> single > >>> board units, none of which are capable of running infrastructure > >>> services for any reasonable performance. the cubietruck seems the > >>> most > >>> 'capable' but still falls well short of reasonable performance. > >>> > >>> There are however ARMv8 based server's that are available, the APM > >>> Mustang class of boards are well supported in CentOS Linux 7 and are > >>> perhaps the most widely available. > >>> > >>> this does however take into consideration my own interpretation of > >>> what > >>> might be considered 'reasonable performance'. > >> > >> ARMv7 server grade hardware does exist. It wasn't so long ago that > >> I was helping the guys at Boston get RedSleeve 6 getting up and > >> running on their Viridis servers: > >> > >> https://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/default.aspx > > > > I believe the viridis platform has been discontinued for a few years > > now, > > Has it? I seem to recall getting RSEL6 running on it 4 years ago, > and it has had a refresh since then. If it has been discontinued > it must have been relatively recently. > > And decent ARMv8 hardware is not actually that easily available, at > least in UK. There's a lot of posturing and press releases but very > little actual hardware to show for it. And if you can ever find it > commercially it is disproportionately expensive for what it is. > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20151201/5b2604e2/attachment-0006.html>