From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Guix on Aarch64 !! Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 10:19:24 +0000 Message-ID: <504AF6B8-DCB1-465F-97AA-EC0B2DC36819@flashner.co.il> References: <20170220143218.GM1369@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <871suaybfr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckpjn-0000AF-40 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:19:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckpjj-0004Kp-S6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:19:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871suaybfr.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ludo@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On March 6, 2017 11:57:44 AM GMT+02:00, ludo@gnu=2Eorg wrote: >Hello! > >Efraim Flashner skribis: > >> Its my pleasure to announce that guix now has all the code necessary >to >> support aarch64! Currently support is limited to the core-updates >> branch, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem, since currently >> everything needs to be built from source=2E > >Woohoo! \o/ > >Congratulations and a big thank you for all the tireless work! > >Let us know if there are still pending patches or anything that needs >to >be addressed=2E > >It would be great if you could start looking for an aarch64 machine to >plug into Hydra, or maybe start with a VM=2E > >Thoughts? > >Cheers, >Ludo=E2=80=99=2E The odroid-c2 is under $50, I've been using that=2E Can be powered from th= e USB flashing port, comes with 4 USB ports, Ethernet and a micro-SD card s= lot=2E It does come with 2GB of RAM, some of which is lost to video, but I'= ve had zram enabled and didn't run into any problems until I tried to build= boost, which needed more than the 1GB of swap I had=2E 4xA53 isn't the fas= test, but I'm pretty sure its the cheapest option for the RAM=2E Downside i= s that it isn't quite yet supported by mainline kernel but there are people= actively working on it=2E Firefly has a couple of boards with 4 GB of RAM but they're closer to $200= each=2E I have one ordered to see how that goes=2E --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E