On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 08:09:42AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org> wrote: > > These appear to finally be available in UK now: > > https://www.xcase.co.uk/gigabyte-server-boards/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-with-appliedmicror-x-gene1r-processor.html > > > > Unfortunately, things don't work right out of the box: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.redsleeve.org/msg01274.html > > > > Has anyone got CentOS installer working with this board? £600 is an > > awful lot to spend on a paper weight. > > > > Related, the Lemaker Hikey dev board is a nice alternative for > AMRv8/AARCH64. Its less than 1/4 of the price at $128 USD. > http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CNZ9GIQ. > > 2GB RAM and 8GB eMMC makes it very amicable to development. I use it > for testing OpenSSL and Crypto++ on real hardware. I hope you're kidding. The HiKey actually overheated and bricked itself for a friend of mine after a few days (admittedly he was trying to use it as a build server). And 2 GB of RAM + all the u-boot nonsense is useless for any serious server or virt task. However LeMaker Cello - $299 for preorder now - is a reasonable alternative for development. I'm quite liking the Gigabyte now that I've got UEFI and RHELSA on it. Having 32 GB of RAM and IPMI rocks. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org