On 14:27 Wed 18 Feb , Tom Gall wrote: > So first, for those interested in cheap arm64 hardware, the first 96 board is > going to start shipping in March for ~$129. The HiKey board is an 8 way 64 > bit ARM board with 8 A53 cores. (No A57s bummer!) Only had a gig of memory > on the board but it’s not a bad device. I’ve had one for about 2-3 weeks now. > I’m basically running off a USB hard disk for the moment and thankfully the > kernel continues to improve. > > The one downside is you really really need a 1.8v USB -> UART cable. You can > get them from digikey and connect it on the board. If working with raw cables > makes you squeamish take a breath, you’ll be fine. > > Info and links at: > > https://www.96boards.org > > > Ok so hardware aside here’s the arm64 gentoo plan. > > 1) new stage3 put together and get that onto the mirrors for consumption. > 2) Get the handbook extended to include arm64 > 3) continued package stabilization > > Volunteers most welcome. > Hi Tom I'd do step 0) -> keyword ebuilds, and here are the ebuilds [1] which all tested on my hardware here (also A53) xfce4, lxde works here; have problem with qt4, no arm64 support, can leverage patches from debian/ubuntu;
btw, is there any script to do massive keyword? [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dlan/misc/keyarm64.txt -- Yixun Lan (dlan) Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Key ID AABEFD55
