[Arm-dev] supported 64bit hardware

[Jim Perrin]

On 09/18/2016 05:47 AM, Tony Lees - Avantek wrote:
> Is one allowed to post commercial links?
> Regards, Tony
> 

In general, no we don't want ads or commercial links, however if it
directly answers the OP's question, then yes.


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