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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [MirageOS-devel] Mirage budget development platform
On 12 Sep 2014, at 15:26, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12 Sep 2014, at 15:13, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> With that I bet the best development platform for Mirage would be some >>>> Apple system and a Cubietrunk board. But that layout has a minimum price >>>> tag of about $1,300 to $1,500 US dollars. As a budget beginner I have been >>>> looking at other options. >>> >>> fwiw i'd be interested in a discussion of good (portable) mirage >>> development platforms generally. what do people use? i'm on a macbook with >>> virtualbox/xen/ubuntu for occasional linux testing but i doubt that's the >>> ideal... >> >> I'd suggest an even simpler mode -- just use the $50 Cubieboard2 (or >> Cubietrick) directly as the development environment. >> >> We already use a Ubuntu dom0, and so it should just be a matter of Linux >> kernel configuration to get a desktop up and running from the HDMI port. It >> would also be *extremely* convenient to be able to do Mirage presentations >> without having a Mac, by plugging a mouse and projector into the Cubieboard >> directly :-) > > time is fleeting(*) though -- how speedy are the CB2/Ts when building? They're just fine. I use one for most of my Xen hacking now, since the ARM/Cubie is so much easier to manage than an x86 Xen server. > where's ocaml up to with cross-platform compilation? It's not there yet. -anil _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list MirageOS-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
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