haerwu

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by haerwu 7mo ago
Cross compilation of entire distributions requires such distributions to be prepated for it. Which is not a case when you use OpenEmbedded/Yocto or Buildroot to build it. But it gets complicated with distributions which are built nativ
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by haerwu 7mo ago
Because I can. Is it good enough answer?
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by haerwu 7mo ago
I updated blog post after reading comments from Matrix/Slack/Phoronix/HN/Lobster/etc. places. - mentioned which board had 143 minutes, added info about time on Milk-V Megrez board - added section 'what we need
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by haerwu 1y ago
Read https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/06/20/the-hunt-for-a-... please. Tool vs Toy.
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by haerwu 1y ago
Depends on how you look at it. Would you call Threadripper system "a normal build"? For many people they are normal builds because they need more computing power or more PCIe lanes than "normal user" desktop has. On the
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by haerwu 1y ago
Those auctions are where we looked at. No answer from seller - probably they did not wanted to deal with sending packages outside of USA.
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by haerwu 1y ago
Apple Mac you can buy now will have M3 or M4 cpu. While Asahi team supports only M1 and M2 families. So you cannot run Linux natively on currently-in-store Mac hardware. And raspberry/pi is a toy. Without any good support in mainline L
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by haerwu 1y ago
"claims" is very good summary In my previous post https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/06/20/the-hunt-for-a-... I wrote: > There were “Arm V9” systems before it, so it was not “World’s First”.
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by haerwu 1y ago
Apple Mx family of cpus supports only 4k and 16k page sizes. There is no way to run 64k binaries there without emulating whole cpu.
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by haerwu 1y ago
@lisper because Q32 is more expensive than Q64 and I got offer for Q80 one. Amount of options for sensible AArch64 hardware is too small (or too expensive).
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by haerwu 1y ago
OK, I tend to ignore HN but got link to this post from several people so will go and comment.
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by haerwu 2y ago
When you look at https://gpages.juszkiewicz.com.pl/arm-socs-table/arm-socs.ht... table then you can see that in Snapdragon 8xx series the first "ARM cores out of shelf" was 888 in 2020. 865 (2019) has Cortex-
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by haerwu 6y ago
Note that whole blog is about Arm architectures and platforms rather than x86(-64) ones.
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by haerwu 7y ago
Qualcomm 8cx cpu is based on smartphone one but optimized for laptop use.
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by haerwu 7y ago
If your work is all non-x86 then having powerful non-x86 box handy helps a lot.
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by haerwu 7y ago
AArch64 servers tend to have 10G (or faster) SFP+ ports rather than 1GbE.
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by haerwu 7y ago
Extra PCIe x1 slot on mainboard would be fine instead of on-board audio.
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by haerwu 7y ago
All ARM Servers need to be SBBR compliant. Which means UEFI+ACPI so each Linux distro just boots and works. SBC market is completely different thing. But that blog post was not about them.
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by haerwu 7y ago
Those workstations use server motherboards.