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. > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77