[Reproducible-builds] Raspi 3 suitable for arm64?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:34:23AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I got the impression it was another broadcom chip, maybe with a
> cortex-a53? Gotta love ARM's confusing namespace.

Yes another broadcom videocore chip with the quad A7 upgraded to quad
A53.  Nothing to do with Allwinner (who really like to confuse things
by using A## codes for their chips that have nothing to do with the A##
arm cores they are based on).

> I've definitely been thinking about some of these new arm64 capable
> boards. The Odroid-C2, Pine64 and LeMaker HiKey have 2GB RAM options, at
> least. I do worry a bit about sufficient mainline support, as a few of
> the boards I've tried (odroid-c1+, cubieboard4) didnt really work out
> with vendor kernels and the mainline support wasn't close enough to be
> useable.
> 
> That said, I'm not sure how much CPU/board diversity has really resulted
> in reproducibility issues at this point, so getting a less diverse
> network set up might be fine.
> 
> Also of note, the arm64 boards *could* be used to test arm64, armhf or
> armel. So they're certainly more flexible. I've considered getting a
> small number of the arm64 capable boards and plugging them into the
> armhf network with the idea that they could be switched over to arm64 in
> the future.

Actually armv8 deprecated quite a bit of stuff, so armel code might not run
on it, and some armhf code might not either, although certainly most will.

-- 
Len Sorensen