ARM as a primary architecture

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>>> they use a rather scary looking pile of development boards with very
>>> poor I/O.
>>
>> Buy a trimslice and run it with iSCSI.  It's a very clean package, and
>> I can get 80 MB/sec to my file server's disks.  That is neither
>> "scary" nor "poor I/O".
>>
>> http://www.delorie.com/arm/trimslice/iscsi.html
>
> Running the thing on iscsi is a good idea, given that local storage is
> linked up via usb while gb ethernet is hooked up via pcie.
>
> Any particular reason why you boot the thing via tftp?  I'd expect just
> having /boot on the sd card (which you need for boot anyway) is easier,
> especially when it comes to kernel updates.

Everything needed to boot goes into the initrd now days so you don't
even need the SD card.

Peter