Recommendations for an ARM system

[Dave Cheney]

Hi,

I'm thinking about blowing a few hundred bucks on one of the ARM5
based home NAS units (like the Netgear Stora)* as a platform to
experiment with Go on ARM. Can anyone give me any recommendations or
suggestions on their ARM experiences.

* From the intergoogles, the majority of the embedded hackable NAS's
out there use a varient of the Marvell Kirckwood ARM5 chip, this is
the same as the Shiva plug. I know ARM5 makes Russ sad, so if anyone
can suggest an ARM6 based platform that would be fantastic.

Cheers

Dave

[Russ Cox]

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has used this one:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx

Russ

[Martin Capitanio]

I have this one

http://www.watterott.com/en/BeagleBoard

but 256MB RAM is a bit low for go.

This one would be certainly more usable:

http://www.watterott.com/en/BeagleBoard-xM

[ron minnich]

I'm running go programs on gumstix with 256MB, admittedly on a
hand-rolled environment of our own.

ron

[Anger]

If you want to try out dual-core ARM you can take a look at
http://www.pandaboard.org/
Its a dual-core Cortex A9 with 1GB of ram :)

[Martin Capitanio]

On Friday, March 25, 2011 12:49:29 AM UTC+1, Anger wrote:

If you want to try out dual-core ARM you can take a look at
http://www.pandaboard.org/
Its a dual-core Cortex A9 with 1GB of ram :)

Not that simple to get your hands on :-P

Est. Delivery Date: PER MFG, NO LEAD TIME IS AVAILABLE DUE TO MFG

CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS AND PRODUCTION ISSUES. MFG IS DOING THEIR BEST TO

KEEP UP WITH DEMAND.

[Skip Tavakkolian]

Hi Russ,

It is basically a GuruPlug. I plan to order one and will let you know.

I use a GuruPlug Display (has HDMI output) running Linux and have a
couple of GuruPlugs that run Plan 9. They work great but some aspects
of display -- like firing up Iceweasel (browser) -- are slow.

As a point of reference I did a pull of the sources and timed all.bash just now:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fst/go/src/pkg/archive/zip'
--- FAIL: zip.TestReader (0.2 seconds)
test.txt: content[2]=%!q(uint8=105) want %!q(uint8=0)
FAIL
make[1]: *** [test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fst/go/src/pkg/archive/zip'
make: *** [archive/zip.test] Error 2

real 13m27.071s
user 9m59.250s
sys 0m57.350s

(the failure on zip.TestReader is due to the problem reported in issue 1240).

-Skip

[Christopher Nielsen]

Russ,

I just ordered one. I'll give it a whirl and report back when I receive it.

--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots & tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson

[Dave Cheney]

Thanks all for the suggestions. Sadly living in Australian (and being
very impatient) I don't have access to some of the nicer dev boards
like the Guru Plug and the BeagalBoard so I went out this afternoon
and picked up a Netgear Stora. For less than $200 AUD for a 1.2Ghz
proc, 128mb of ram and a 1Tb hard drive, it's pretty hard to pass up.

I've just finished my first ./make.bash and it completed without error
(do remember to apply CL 4296042) A tribute to the dedication of the
Go team for true platform and architecture independence.

Skip, FWIW, I can't reproduce issue 1240 with +tip.

Cheers

Dave

[Martin Capitanio]

On Friday, March 25, 2011 7:22:47 AM UTC+1, Dave Cheney wrote:

Thanks all for the suggestions. Sadly living in Australian (and being
very impatient) I don't have access to some of the nicer dev boards
like the Guru Plug and the BeagalBoard so I went out this afternoon
and picked up a Netgear Stora. For less than $200 AUD for a 1.2Ghz
proc, 128mb of ram and a 1Tb hard drive, it's pretty hard to pass up.

Looks like a nice hackable device (you can even solder a JTAG connector)

http://www.openstora.com/wiki/

I've just finished my first ./make.bash and it completed without error
(do remember to apply CL 4296042) A tribute to the dedication of the
Go team for true platform and architecture independence.

Yeah, especially big thanks to Russ and Ken for keeping the arm

architecture support in a gut shape.

Martin

[Bill Traynor]

FWIW, the pandaboard lead time from Digikey is down to approximately
2-3 weeks. This is a great improvement from the 2 months I waited for
my board.

[Fabio Kaminski]

Dreaming over pandaboard to, but in living Brazil.. i guess i gonna take my chances ordering, in digikey, and see if it arrives over here :S

[Evan Shaw]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Fabio Kaminski <fabiok...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dreaming over pandaboard to, but in living Brazil.. i guess i gonna take my
> chances ordering, in digikey, and see if it arrives over here :S

I'm in New Zealand and I recently ordered some BeagleBoards and
accessories for work. That's anecdotal, of course, but I wouldn't
worry about it too much.

- Evan