On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen
<smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim
>> Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk
>> at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt.
>>
>
> I know that several ARMS talk to disks via the USB chain versus a
> dedicated SATA like connection. This causes all kinds of issues when 2
> things talk down the bus to the disk drive (just like if it is a
> spinning disk). The same with network and other peripheals. It will
> depend on how the hardware sees it and talks to it to know if it will
> work well or not. [My kingdom for an ARM PCI bus :)]
Send me your kingdom... there's now a number of ARM devices with PCI-e
buses, or SATA/NICs plugged directly into the SoC so not hanging off
crappy USB/SPI/GPIO/i2c buses :-D
But are the devices Richard has those?
Peter
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Stephen J Smoogen.