> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:27:43 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Parallella
> 
> David wrote:
> >The question is whether represent it as an existing platform with a new type 
> >of
> >coprocessor, or as a new platform. I suggest the latter.
> 
> And HBE wrote:
> > I  suggest the former (coprocessor).
> 
> I would agree with HBE here. I have 5 Raspi Pi's (and 2 Parallella's on 
> order). The Parallella would really be a similar arrangement but with the 
> Epiphany as a coprocessor. The Epiphany has OpenCL support similar to PC's 
> with a GPU, which we already treat as coprocessors. We'd want to be 
> consistent.
> 
> BOINC on the Pi refers to itself as "arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf". I am sure 
> HBE would have run BOINC on the Parallella by now. What does the Parallella 
> report itself as? It depends where you get Boinc from, if you get it from the 
> repository it's the same as the Pi since you got Boinc from the same source , 
> ie arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf: 
> http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1026#p6457 If you compile 
> Boinc yourself, you get something different, I get 
> armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf for my Pi: 
> https://albert.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8967&nowrap=true#112798 a 
> Parallella will have something similar to armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf,a 
> side effect/BUG is none of the projects that had apps suitable for the Pi 
> would send work for that platform, so I had to enter 
> arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf in the cc_config.xml as <alt_platform> to get 
> work from Albert or Einstein, Shouldn't the projects send work out to the 
> different arm sub-platforms as well by default? Claggy
> 
> Cheers,
> MarkJ
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