> On Mar 14, 2016, at 02:42, Karel Gardas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Roderick <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about AMD Opteron A-Series? Does OpenBSD run on it? >> >> http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/server/opteron-a-series > > No and unfortunately reference doc is still under NDA. Also no answer > here: https://community.amd.com/thread/196120 > > I'm not sure about broadcom in RPi3, but I've tried to get doc from > AMCC for their X-Gene and from Cavium for their ThunderX but no > success so far. The only meaningful thing (i.e. performance higher > than A53 which is also in RPi3) with doc released is Nvidia's > Tegra-X1. > > If you are a fan of ARMv8 and you'd like to see this moving forward, > perhaps you can give a try to drahn_arm64 branch in bitrig project > git tree... IMHO thing which may be closest to OpenBSD tree...
It seems to me that as time passes there will be additional armv8 choices. If I were to devote cycles to it it would seem preferable to work in the context of the real thing instead of something close. Is that poor reasoning? Also, even though the Pi3 has its blob problems it is inexpensive and may not be a bad way to get a v8 foundation in place. Again, is this wrong?
