Re: [MirageOS-devel] Hardware choices for ARM64

[Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefan,

I think the only thing that matters for an arm32 board is whether it
can run Xen. If it can, Mirage/Xen should work too. Cubieboard 2 and 3
are both known to work.


On 12 November 2015 at 21:08, Stefan Xenon <stefanxe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
> As a newbie I'm a bit confused which boards and CPUs work with
> MirageOS/XEN. I understood while ARM64 doesn't work yet (but it
> shouldn't be a big deal to get it running) instead ARM32 is the only
> architecture supported. Obviously Cubieboard2 works but I couldn't find
> information about other supported devices. In particular I'm interested
> in faster devices than the Cubieboard2. Could anybody list other working
> boards and summarize the requirements to look for?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Am 12.11.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Anil Madhavapeddy:
>>
>>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 11:43, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 00:11, Vincent Bernardoff <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 09/11/2015 15:21, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>>>>> Just fyi, I also got another off-list reply pointing to:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The gigabyte MP30-AR0 boards are nice and very affordable:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
>>>>>>
>>>>>> includes the X-gene 1 processor. They cost around $700
>>>>>
>>>>> -anil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FYI, french provider online.net has released https://www.scaleway.com, a
>>>> dedicated arm servers / cloud offer.
>>>>
>>>> It is perhaps possible to run Mirage on thoseâ
>>>
>>> We did explore this but unfortunately there was a hardware limitation.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/scaleway/kernel-tools/issues/14#issuecomment-105536276
>>
>> Xen doesn't run on there right now -- another option is that once the 
>> Rump/Mirage hw/HVM backend gets more mature native ARM support, we should be 
>> able to boot directly on the Scaleway C1s as bare metal.
>>
>> Anil
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