Christian,
thanks for your email. As my experience with qemu are not that lucky,
I'm afraid hardware way seems to be pretty natural. Also I'm glad
SoftIron provides cheaper system (1000) than their rack-mounted 3000.
Yes, I agree that the 1000 is out-dated, abandoned by AMD itself and
probably
quite horrible put together (judging from available pictures), but if
this is
supported by OBSD and in fact run too, then for compiler/compiling
guy like myself is probably as pain-less as possible way now.
Thanks!
Karel
On 01/13/18 01:36, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
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.
