Re: [MirageOS-devel] Mirage OS on Cubieboard - beginner question

[Miroslav Dobsicek <m.dobsicek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you! I'll go with CB3 then.

Miroslav

On 2015-02-05 22:11, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On 5 February 2015 at 15:19, Miroslav Dobsicek <m.dobsicek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got interested in Mirage OS as it provides me with a good excuse to start
> > playing with Ocaml and single board computers.
> >
> > To get started,
> >   - I am better of buying Cubieboard 3 or rather the newer Cubieboard 4 with
> > the hope that Xen will support Allwinner A80 soon?
> I'd go with the Cubieboard 3. Otherwise, you'll have to figure out how
> to make it boot yourself. With the CB 3, you can use our pre-built
> image:
>
>    https://github.com/mirage/xen-arm-builder
>
> >   - What is the recommended debugging environment, I guess a serial console
> > is must. Something more to consider?
> For the CB3, it should just boot and be accessible over the network
> (it uses DHCP to get an address), so you might get away without the
> serial cable. If you get the CB4, I'm sure you'll need it though!
>
> > Note: I have no particular preference for Cubieboards as such, they are just
> > boards I noticed some Mirage developers are using.
> I think that's the easiest one to get started with.
>
> Has anyone tried the Raspberry Pi 2 yet? It's ARMv7, so it should work with Xen.

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