MIPS64 and ARM architecture support?

2013-12-25 Thread Rajeev Prasad
hello,

is the OS available for ARM / MIPS64? i could not find info that either 1204LTS 
or 1404LTS.
anyone know better, pl advice.

thank you.
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Re: MIPS64 and ARM architecture support?

2013-12-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 25 December 2013 17:51, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
 hello,

 is the OS available for ARM / MIPS64? i could not find info that either
 1204LTS or 1404LTS.
 anyone know better, pl advice.

You can check which debian architectures[1] are available for a given
release on launchpad, that is authoritative information.

See architecture and build section on the left:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty

The labels in brackets signify if the packages are on primary or ports
mirrors - [countrycode.]archive.ubuntu.com /
[countrycode.]ports.ubuntu.com respectively.

There are 3 types of ARM related architectures, out of which armhf
(ARMv7) and arm64 (aka AARCH64, ARMv8) are current.

About any type of MIPS (mips, mipsel, mips64...) ports, all I can find
is this porting effort team https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mips
You can try mips/mipsel with Debian OS.

[1] exact required CPU / ISA are encoded in the
compiler/kernel/dpkg/etc. configuration, e.g. i386 actually defaults
to 686 on ubuntu  etc.

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Re: MIPS64 and ARM architecture support?

2013-12-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 25 December 2013 20:45, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Thank you Dimitri.
 I have now found: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/arm

 I have also found:
 http://www.cavium.com/processor_Project-Thunder_Ubuntu-Server.html

 Question is for a web developer how different it would be to install and
 work on ARM servers? what and how things will be different for LAMP(Perl 
 PHP)  developers?


At such a high level, nothing should be different. If one looks
closer, one will notice that performance is different and possibly not
everything is compiled / available, but that's easy to notice simply
some packages missing dependencies or not available. In practice all
usual things are available.

You may launch ARM (emulated) instances on Amazon EC2 cloud. Or
locally use qemu-user-static: e.g. $ mk-sbuild --arch armhf trusty ; $
mk-sbuild --arch arm64 trusty (should work on saucy  trusty host
operating systems), which then gives you working chroots, e.g. $ sudo
schroot -u root -c trusty-arm64

Typically development happens on normal amd64/i386 machines. If there
native code involved, one can either cross-compile or perform native
compilation, then test in emulators / test-systems and deploy. For
armhf, there are fairly cheap development boards one can use - e.g.
panda board. arm64 stock is very limited and exclusive at this point
in time.

Regards,

Dimitri.


 On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 12:35 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov
 x...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 On 25 December 2013 17:51, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:

 hello,

 is the OS available for ARM / MIPS64? i could not find info that either
 1204LTS or 1404LTS.
 anyone know better, pl advice.


 You can check which debian architectures[1] are available for a given
 release on launchpad, that is authoritative information.

 See architecture and build section on the left:

 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise

 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty

 The labels in brackets signify if the packages are on primary or ports
 mirrors - [countrycode.]archive.ubuntu.com /
 [countrycode.]ports.ubuntu.com respectively.

 There are 3 types of ARM related architectures, out of which armhf
 (ARMv7) and arm64 (aka AARCH64, ARMv8) are current.

 About any type of MIPS (mips, mipsel, mips64...) ports, all I can find
 is this porting effort team https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mips
 You can try mips/mipsel with Debian OS.

 [1] exact required CPU / ISA are encoded in the
 compiler/kernel/dpkg/etc. configuration, e.g. i386 actually defaults
 to 686 on ubuntu  etc.

 --
 Regards,

 Dimitri.






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