On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 10:08 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Neal Gompa wrote:
> Well, strictly speaking, this is really only a problem for IBM
> architectures (ppc64le and s390x) because there's no economical way
> for anyone to be able to care for them. For both ARM architectures we
> support, there are a number of low-cost (in the impulse buy range,
> even!) systems that people can acquire to do local development. For
> the upcoming RISC-V port, it's practically guaranteed that we're going
> to see similar low-cost hardware so that people can be exposed to the
> platform develop relatively soon after the Fedora RISC-V port is
> mainlined.
Well, those low-cost devices are typically:
* usable only for development/hacking/toying around, due to their form
factor (bare board), peripherals and/or (lack of) computing power,
* extremely slow at everything including building packages (just look at how
slow the relatively fast Koji ARM builders are; low-cost devices are a lot
worse than that),
* so bare that you have to spend a multiple of the purchase price of the
device to add needed development equipment (RAM, storage, I/O peripherals,
etc.),
so I am not convinced that they are really useful targets for developers.
Sorry, I was referring to systems like the OverDrive 1000[1], which
are PC form-factor ARM systems.
I have one of these myself, and they're very handy for doing
reasonable development of software on ARM.
[1]:
https://softiron.com/development-tools/overdrive-1000/
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