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On 2018-11-18, james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> On 2018-11-17, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>>> On 2018-11-17, james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>>>> Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer. |
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>>>> No, Ryzen is not an Arm processor. |
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>>> Well, ... the PSP spy-in-the-die is an ARM core running within the |
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>>> main AMD x86 CPU and you can't switch it off, or remove it. |
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>> Right. Unless AMD has screwed up royally, the ARM |
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>> security-processor-thingy is pretty much invisible to the end-user. |
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>>> However, I'm sure this is not the kind of ARM James' been looking |
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>>> for. |
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>> I assumed not. |
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>> I'd love to have an Arm based laptop, but getting full-up Linux |
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>> running reliably on a Chromebook is just a bit over my hassle budget. |
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>> I also want it to have a 16" 4:3 150dpi display, an RJ45 Ethernet |
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>> connector, and a real DB9 serial port. I'll pass on the built in POTS |
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>> modem... |
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> I had not realized that AMD has completely given up on Arm Systems. |
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It's hard to tell. They still show the Opteron-A on their web site, |
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but Google couldn't find anything using it... |
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> I'm looking for an arm64 system, with enough native power to compile 64 |
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> bit arm codes, natively. Here is the best I've found:: |
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> SynQuacer Dev Box |
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> [1] https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ |
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> Purports to run gentoo (embedded?). |
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> "�SC2A11� is a multi-core chip with 24 cores of ARM� Cortex-A53" |
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> Not quite available (alpha) and a bit pricey at $1200.00. |
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Ouch. |
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> Like Grant I'm looking for an arm 64 system that is straightforward |
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> on installing gentoo, and has enough resources to perform most |
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> compiles, natively. Or somebody has distcc running on four of those |
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> 4G DDR-4 boards. |
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> Perhaps a gentoo cluster running on the latest R. PI ? |
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> Perhaps Vapier has a hidden howto to put native gentoo on Chromebooks? |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Chromebook |
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It's definitly doable ( for certain models and some value of |
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"doable"). Everytime I look into it, the models for which "real" |
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Linux installations are documented are always out-of-production. |
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> Perhaps "TomH" has some suggestions. I got one of those "hikey Armv8a" |
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> boards from 2015, but cannot find his gentoo image he crafted and |
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> published. I do not have time for another gentoo adventure, just want to |
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> use it and sync it now and again and install ebuilds and write a few |
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> ebuilds for some 64 bit arm boards. |
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Cross development might be easier. It's how a _lot_ of ARM Linux |
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targets are supported. Even if the devlopment host and target are |
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both ARM64, unless they're _really_ identical (same kernel, distro, |
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and libraries), you still end up doing a good amount of "cross" |
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compiling. |
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> My thoughts are to consolidate my efforts into one (arm64) arch, both on |
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> the development lappy and the arm64 SBCs I have to code to and |
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> maintain. Perhaps All winner? (Allwinner H6)?USB 3.0 is great for SSD |
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> and offgrid applications. |
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Grant |
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