On 2018-01-11, Karel Gardas <gard...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to help a bit with GHC work on OpenBSD and would like to give it a > try > to port GHC to ARMv8. GHC is a beast so I assume I'll need machine/emulator > with 4GB RAM at least. I'm curious what you guys are using for running all > those > ARMv8 packages builders and for your own porting efforts?
The arm64 package builders and at least some development machines are SoftIron OverDrive 1000. That machine has real disk and real ethernet, is relatively fast, and you can actually buy it. However, it is quite expensive. It also sucks 42 watts idle, and three fans make it quite noisy. By arm64 standards, i.e., compared to all those flimsy development boards, it is a solidly engineered machine. By PC standards, it's a crappy prototype board, haphazardly wedged into an actual case. So somewhat mixed overall. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
