On 11/17/18 9:59 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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. >
So, I'm going with a standard:: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_3_64_bit_Install I guess I'll try to cluster these guys, say four, into an old laptop with a removed motherboard, and just cable the connections, to the external sides of the old/large motherboard. It'll be interested to see if I can get the 17.3 inch screen to work with this board. You'd think that some laptop case manufacturer would have already built a generic laptop to house 4-8 of these R.pi.3B+ boards inside and prebuilt cables to tether to glueable connectors on the outside of the case. I like the Molex-screw-terminals myself, particularly for RS232 serial and A/D IO. USB and HDMI out to be easy to extend. And you thought those old (large) laptops were still useless.... Wish me luck. Drop a line if you find gentoo-clusterd on these R. Pi-3B+ SBC anywhere. Surely today's kids do that sort of thing between classes? It'd be great if we made this laptop to clusters (gentoo) Rpi a group project... I might just look for a 'carrier-slot' hardware, where R.pi can be inserted and removed kinda like the old pcmcia cards on lappies. Thx Grant (&Mick), James
