Re: [fedora-arm] Fwd: decent reasonably-priced armhf system with sata, gigabit ethernet, dual-core processor and 2gb of RAM

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:30:15PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
> i posted this to the debian-arm list but it occurred to me that you
> guys might appreciate having a decent desktop-style system as well as
> something with enough RAM to do compiles of some of the larger
> packages without needing to run into swap space, as well.
>
> joe (posting on arm-netbooks) has managed to get a sub-17-second boot
> to desktop out of the A20 when it's matched with 1gbyte 800mhz DDR3
> RAM and a decent SATA SSD: now imagine what happens when that's 2gbyte
> 1333mhz DDR3 RAM :)

I was looking at the A20 a while back.  This has a Cortex-A7
-compatible processor, right?  Does it do hardware virtualization,
ideally without too much hacking?

Rich.