[Arm-netbook] A10 server dreamboard

[Alejandro Mery]

On 30/05/12 00:51, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> tis 2012-05-29 klockan 15:24 +0300 skrev Tsvetan Usunov - OLIMEX Ltd:
>
>
>> I've had interesting chat with Alejandro on the irc  about possible
>> use of A10 as fanless server unit.
>
> A10 would in theory do quite nicely as micro-server. But there is some
> major drawbacks when applying A10 to a long term product such as server
>
> a) No mainline kernel support. Each new kernel release requires
> significant effort.
>
> b) It's SATA support is kind of secondary and not very well tested, with
> some worrying reports about instability and corruption. Don't quite have
> trust in it yet.
>
> c) It does NOT support SATA port multipliers which limits storage
> expansion capability considerably.
>
>> I'm interested to hear your opinion as you obviously know better this
>> from customer/software developer point of view. Do you think A10 can
>> handle server jobs?
>
> Yes, if the SATA issues gets resolved.

the reported SATA issues were all related to power or cable problems