Has anyone managed to get alpha 3 to boot yet?
Another quick question: Does debian for arm use ARMv7 and if so from
what distro/version?
Has anyone managed to get alpha 3 to boot yet?
Yes, since alpha-3 was released, an image built yesterday and today...
However i'm not recommending anyone use it yet till all the current
issues are resolved, (oem-config failing). If you wish to test, use
the old alpha-2 snapshot i posted on the elinux wiki and "sudo
aptitude update" & "sudo aptitude -y safe-upgrade" your way to
alpha-3...
Another quick question: Does debian for arm use ARMv7 and if so from
what distro/version?
Nope, debian developers would rather support almost every arm device
and it is therefore built for 'armv4'... Which pretty much means tons
of inefficient cycles for armv7-a devices, but it does run just
fine...
Regards,
I’m using debian squeeze now on my C4 with the xfce4 WM. This is running perfectly.
I’m even following the new kernels you posted, but I’m still using 2.6.32 because the .33 was still RC.
But like you mentioned it is only optimized for armv4. Does it give a noticable preformance boost going to armv6 or armv7 on ubuntu? This because mplayer is pretty slow on decoding video, even using the neon drivers for omap fb.
Thanks!
2010/3/2 Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>
I'm using debian squeeze now on my C4 with the xfce4 WM. This is running
perfectly.
I'm even following the new kernels you posted, but I'm still using 2.6.32
because the .33 was still RC.
I've actually enabled the dsp modules in my 2.6-dev (.33) so as long
as the other parts of the dsp chain work that should help playing
video in debian...
But like you mentioned it is only optimized for armv4. Does it give a
noticable preformance boost going to armv6 or armv7 on ubuntu? This because
mplayer is pretty slow on decoding video, even using the neon drivers for
omap fb.
It really depends on the application, but here are some test results i
have been working on... the lucid column is misleading, as the
partition was too just far along on the platter. I'm in the long
process of rerunning them.. The Sheevaplug also has a 500Mh-ish
advantage over the Beagle's..
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=profile&u=robertcnelson-24050-12614-4324
Regards,