On 2018-11-18, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-11-17, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2018-11-17, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer. >>>> >>>> No, Ryzen is not an Arm processor. >> >>> Well, ... the PSP spy-in-the-die is an ARM core running within the >>> main AMD x86 CPU and you can't switch it off, or remove it. >> >> Right. Unless AMD has screwed up royally, the ARM >> security-processor-thingy is pretty much invisible to the end-user. >> >>> However, I'm sure this is not the kind of ARM James' been looking >>> for. >> >> I assumed not. >> >> I'd love to have an Arm based laptop, but getting full-up Linux >> running reliably on a Chromebook is just a bit over my hassle budget. >> I also want it to have a 16" 4:3 150dpi display, an RJ45 Ethernet >> connector, and a real DB9 serial port. I'll pass on the built in POTS >> modem... > > I had not realized that AMD has completely given up on Arm Systems.
It's hard to tell. They still show the Opteron-A on their web site, but Google couldn't find anything using it... > I'm looking for an arm64 system, with enough native power to compile 64 > bit arm codes, natively. Here is the best I've found:: > > SynQuacer Dev Box > > [1] https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ > > Purports to run gentoo (embedded?). > "�SC2A11� is a multi-core chip with 24 cores of ARM� Cortex-A53" > > Not quite available (alpha) and a bit pricey at $1200.00. Ouch. > Like Grant I'm looking for an arm 64 system that is straightforward > on installing gentoo, and has enough resources to perform most > compiles, natively. Or somebody has distcc running on four of those > 4G DDR-4 boards. > > Perhaps a gentoo cluster running on the latest R. PI ? > > Perhaps Vapier has a hidden howto to put native gentoo on Chromebooks? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Chromebook It's definitly doable ( for certain models and some value of "doable"). Everytime I look into it, the models for which "real" Linux installations are documented are always out-of-production. > Perhaps "TomH" has some suggestions. I got one of those "hikey Armv8a" > boards from 2015, but cannot find his gentoo image he crafted and > published. I do not have time for another gentoo adventure, just want to > use it and sync it now and again and install ebuilds and write a few > ebuilds for some 64 bit arm boards. Cross development might be easier. It's how a _lot_ of ARM Linux targets are supported. Even if the devlopment host and target are both ARM64, unless they're _really_ identical (same kernel, distro, and libraries), you still end up doing a good amount of "cross" compiling. > My thoughts are to consolidate my efforts into one (arm64) arch, both on > the development lappy and the arm64 SBCs I have to code to and > maintain. Perhaps All winner? (Allwinner H6)?USB 3.0 is great for SSD > and offgrid applications. -- Grant
