Hello! Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 03:43:44PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> If the HiFive works fine, let me remind you that we have budget to buy >> hardware, so we could just as well order a couple of these right away >> (maybe you’ll have Guix System running by the time we receive them ;-)). > > On one hand they seem similar to some of our aarch64 boards (but with > 16GB of RAM), on the other hand it'd be a coup to announce serious > support for the platform so quickly. I’m not saying we should announce anything, but rather that we get ready for when the port is functional (especially if there’s typically 6 months between ordering and shipping). > I had to pay import tax when I received mine, and I assume those in > Europe did too, so I'd recommend they be hosted in the US since IIRC > they're shipping from Texas. It might be nice to wait until we have it > working for sure, but the lead time is still expected to be 6 months > between ordering and shipping dates. OK. I don’t doubt “working for sure” will eventually happen; I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes less than 6 months even. :-) (I’m not talking about the reduced bootstrap seeds, just the gross bootstrap as currently done on ARM.) > I suppose if something else comes along that's faster we could always > cancel an order and switch to that. > > I have mine sitting in a mini-ITX case, using a libre-respecting NVIDIA > card. Definitely a more serious board than the aarch64 boards I've > bought in the past. Good! Ludo’.
