Thanks for doing that Yixun, I’ll start on your list a little bit later this evening.
Best, Tom > On Mar 1, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Yixun Lan <d...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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 >
