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Raspberry Pi
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: hiro on July 22, 2012, 08:26:58 PM ---different ARM versions have different instruction sets... you'd want armv5, armv6, armv7,...
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Reading up more I come to understand that a separate kernel would be required for each system, but userland could be one (with a minimum arch).
curaga:
Yes, but the advantages of a higher minimum arch than v6 (of the pi) are big (5-20% IIRC). Add to that how limited the pi is, it doesn't make sense to target anything less than v7 with neon and hard float IMHO.
roberts:
FWIW, I have received my Pi. I have been preparing a Core root filesystem. I now have micro Core booting "scatter mode" from both Qemu and the actual Pi. Still early stage. Still evaluating...
The Pi seems to be controversial as some love it and some think it is a joke. I will note that it is very underpowered and its price is no bargain once you add the cost of a case and its own power supply. There are now many alternate more powerful low cost systems available. Think Allwinner.
spence91:
I've had mine being a small torrent & rsync server for backups to NFS. Not done anything else in terms of trying to get TCL on it.
Would be keen to test the system if you wanted to make it available :-)
...I have to disagree on the case and power supply - the original packaging can be your case (I've got mine hanging off a hook in a sunglasses cloth carry case) and a power source is going to set you back £2.50 at the most if you don't already have a 5V phone charger already.
curaga:
I wouldn't trust a generic chinese usb charger to be stable 24/7. CE is just a sticker nowadays.
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