Eugene wrote:
... OS support if not mature yet, especially for ARMv8 (64 bit).
Does someone have an exhaustive list of packages which we depend on for production but aren't available as arm binaries yet? We could try to build those.
As for development, I understand that Oracle's JDK isn't on arm yet, but am not sure why openjdk wouldn't be strongly preferred. Maybe the multimedia team wants a 64 bit JRE for Adobe Flash C++ CrossBridge (formerly Alchemy) as per http://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ but I assume they probably have Macs, or can get them if they need to compile Flash applets for non-webrtc compliant client browser support.
Can someone more familiar with the Foundation's server infrastructure needs than I please create a page somewhere with a checklist of packages, modules, tools, etc., which need to be on arm but aren't yet? Jasper mentioned that we need virtualization for Labs but aren't using Zen. It would be great to see what the developers for the virtualization that Labs uses say about prospects for arm builds.
Best regards, James
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:05 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Nicolas Charbonnier's "Latest ARM Server solutions booths tour" may be of some interest for those of you interested in low power server hardware:
http://armdevices.net/2013/12/30/latest-arm-server-solutions-booths-tour/
Mitac isn't represented there, but he did an interview of them a year and a half ago: