[Arm-netbook] A10 server dreamboard

Enrico ebutera at users.sourceforge.net
Tue May 29 17:05:21 BST 2012


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>> It's not my or your point of view that must win, the win is already in
>> sharing ideas with him. Saying "most people may not actually need NAND
>> because they'll use a SATA disk anyway" is a big statement.
>
> It may be a big statement, but I think it's relatively accurate among
> the people who are interested in a server. The discussion started with
> the notion of making some server boards. If we're going to discuss a
> broader concept such as embedded development boards, then that's fine,
> too - but let's split the threads then.

Example kind of server:

- N (4/8/16/32) A10 "blades"
- boot from flash (with read only rootfs)
- storage via ethernet
- configured as a cluster to serve http static files

Is it a valid use case? Do you want to call them server boards or
embedded boards?

Enrico



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