Re: [MirageOS-devel] Hardware choices for ARM64

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There's been some progress on finding ARM64 hosting online now.  Justin found 
one that he seems to be using successfully (if slowly)... who is the provider?

I don't find that ARM is particularly beneficial for online hosting outside of 
having a convenient build box to generate binaries or Docker containers for my 
Cubieboard and other local ARM devices.  It's very convenient for that though...

Anil

> On 27 Nov 2015, at 15:28, Nick Hardiman <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Iâve been turning over some ideas. I read about the virtualization problem on 
> https://www.scaleway.com/.
> https://github.com/scaleway/kernel-tools/issues/14#issuecomment-105536276
> 
> How useful would Internet hosting on ARM bare metal be? Whatâs an attractive 
> tech stack?
> 
> 
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 11:29, Justin Cormack <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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