Re: [MirageOS-devel] Hardware choices for ARM64

[Justin Cormack <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The main performance thing is using an external SATA SSD, rather than
onboard flash which is usually extremely slow. The Cubietrucks are
reasonable for this.

Justin


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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