Re: [MirageOS-devel] Recommended device for MirageOS

[buzz heavyyear <buzzheavyyear@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bah, you're absolutely right, I saw the H and, in my excitement, scrambled the 
link between eye and brain and concluded that it was the A64/H64, which have 
arm A53s.

--- Original Message ---

From: "Thomas Leonard" <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27 August 2015 2:08 pm
To: "Nick Betteridge" <buzzheavyyear@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Anil Madhavapeddy" <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Richard Mortier" <mort@xxxxxxxxxx>, 
mirageos-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [MirageOS-devel] Recommended device for MirageOS

On 27 August 2015 at 07:01, Nick Betteridge <buzzheavyyear@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Definitely recommend the Cubieboard2 or Cubietruck.
>
> I think that the sunxi development of cubieboard4 has dried up even though
> it's marked to be included in the next release. The only issue I've found
> with cubieboard2/3 - which is definitely the way to go - is that if you run
> the boards with the pre-built images for a long time then the xapi stack
> chews up all of the microsd memory by writing a lot to syslog. If you
> rebuild the image with the xapi commented out of the build scripts then it
> works fine.
>
> Incidentally, next iteration of cubieboard - 5 - uses the allwinner h8 -
> which has the A53's, is 64 bits running arm architecture v8.

Do you have a reference for this? According to Wikipedia, the H8 has A7s:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allwinner_Technology#A_and_H-Series

(the 8 referring to the number of cores, not the ARM architecture version)


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