On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > [ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ]
... which is debian-arm [arm-netbooks cc'd to keep people there informed] > buildds > ======= > > Both armel and armhf are doing well, covering ~96% of the archive. We > don't have any ARM server hardware yet, so we're stuck using > development boards as build machines. They work, but they're a PITA > for hosting and they're not designed for 24x7 usage like we're doing > so they're not that reliable. armel currently using a load of Marvell > Feroceon dev boards (v5), armhf on Freescale imx53 dev boards. Both > sets of machines are limited in terms of memory, meaning the common > large C++ apps are painful to build - linking in swap! rright. many thanks to the person on arm-netbooks who found that the netgear ReadyNAS boxes can take standard DDR3 SO-DIMMs. apparently there are lots of people who have been upgrading them from the pathetic 256mb they come with to at least 1gb, with some degree of success: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=49254 however the discussion goes on to point out that the manufacturers often have the RAM ICs changed out from under them but don't tell anyone, just release the same RAM module with the same product number but with different timing specs. the readynas duo v2 specs say, bless 'em, it's an "ARM processor from marvell". http://www.readynas.com/?p=6167 however a bit more searching (thank you to gordan) it's apparently a 1.6ghz marvell CPU that has at least fully main-lined linux kernel support in upstream kernel.org. the nice thing about the readynas boxes is that they have gigabit ethernet and 2 stonking SATA-II interfaces. searching, searching... achh fiinally, reghardware has an article which actually says which ARM CPU it is. why the f*** netgear couldn't be bothered to put that on their own tech specs i really don't know. http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/18/review_netgear_readynas_duo_v2_network_attached_storage/ ok hooray, it's an 88F6282, aka armada-300. right. so the product brief is downloadable here: http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-300/ and it says it's a "Sheeva", whatever that is, and it says it's only a 16-bit DDR3 interface, which means it's going to be rather painful to use _but_ nothing like as bad as having to do linker phases in swap. anyway, there you go: readynas duo v2. actually available, actually being sold in reasonable volume, actually having mainline linux kernel support, actually taking standard DDR3 SO-DIMMs although it's anybody's guess as to which ones will work, so you'll just have to experiment. it'd be good to know what works. /peace l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPweEDybgetx4srEAdC=sdmf1ddt6o_xfwe8v8gade7xnb-...@mail.gmail.com
