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On 14:27 Wed 18 Feb , Tom Gall wrote: |
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> So first, for those interested in cheap arm64 hardware, the first 96 board is going to start shipping in March for ~$129. The HiKey board is an 8 way 64 bit ARM board with 8 A53 cores. (No A57s bummer!) Only had a gig of memory on the board but it’s not a bad device. I’ve had one for about 2-3 weeks now. I’m basically running off a USB hard disk for the moment and thankfully the kernel continues to improve. |
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> The one downside is you really really need a 1.8v USB -> UART cable. You can get them from digikey and connect it on the board. If working with raw cables makes you squeamish take a breath, you’ll be fine. |
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> Info and links at: |
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> https://www.96boards.org |
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> Ok so hardware aside here’s the arm64 gentoo plan. |
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> 1) new stage3 put together and get that onto the mirrors for consumption. |
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> 2) Get the handbook extended to include arm64 |
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> 3) continued package stabilization |
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> Volunteers most welcome. |
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Hi Tom |
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I'd do step 0) -> keyword ebuilds, and here are the ebuilds [1] which |
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all tested on my hardware here (also A53) |
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xfce4, lxde works here; have problem with qt4, no arm64 support, |
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can leverage patches from debian/ubuntu; |
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btw, is there any script to do massive keyword? |
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[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dlan/misc/keyarm64.txt |
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Yixun Lan (dlan) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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GPG Key ID AABEFD55 |
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