[Arm-netbook] ARM device - compiling linux software

[Michael Howard]

On 06/06/2014 14:08, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Looking for another ARM device to assist in software builds, has anybody
>>> got any recommendations for a capable board/device available in the UK?
>> I like the wandboard quad myself, able to run debian armmp kernels, seems to
>> be reasonablly stable (i've been running the autobuilders for raspbian
>> jessie on them for a while with only occasional crashes which I half suspect
>> are due to my use of btrfs), has an a9 quad core processor, 2GB ram, SATA
> I'm using a cubietruck (Allwinner A20 with dual A7 cores).  Works well
> as well, though it's clearly less powerful cpu-wise.  I liked its SATA
> support better than the Wandboard's (basically, it provides 2'5" SATA
> power as well, so you avoid the need for an external power supply).
>
> The mainline Linux kernel support for cubietruck is not great but is
> sufficient for sever-style uses (no video, no audio, no OTG).
>
Have used cubietruck, seems to struggle with swapping, badly.

As you say, mainline support is not good and is obviously part of the 
swapping issue I experienced. Maybe if I could get swap set up properly 
on it it would do the business as the spec implies it should.

Cheers,
Mike.

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