{"id":1503,"date":"2015-07-09T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T06:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2015-07-09T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T06:09:56","slug":"arm64-and-now-8-cores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"ARM64 – And Now… 8 Cores!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had another ARM64 system on order for some time, and – unexpectedly – it shipped a few days ago..<\/p>\n

It is an 8-core ‘Hikey’ board, based on the same 96Boards<\/em> outline as the DragonBoard 410c..<\/p>\n

\"Hikey<\/a>

Hikey 8 Core ARM64<\/p><\/div>\n

So far, I have it booting – with the Linaro\/Hikey 3.18 kernel – and have put Fedora 22<\/strong> on it..<\/p>\n

Fedora release 22 (Twenty two)<\/strong><\/span>\r\nKernel 3.18.0-linaro-hikey on an aarch64 (tty1)<\/strong><\/span>\r\n.........<\/strong><\/span>\r\n# uname -a<\/strong><\/span>\r\nLinux rghikey 3.18.0-linaro-hikey #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 1 17:32:09 UTC 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
It is fascinating to see it boot, with eight ‘Tux’s in a row!<\/p>\n
$ cat \/proc\/cpuinfo<\/span><\/strong>\r\nProcessor : AArch64 Processor rev 3 (aarch64)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 0<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 1<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 2<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 3<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 4<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 5<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 6<\/span><\/strong>\r\nprocessor : 7<\/span><\/strong>\r\nFeatures : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 <\/span><\/strong>\r\nCPU implementer : 0x41<\/span><\/strong>\r\nCPU architecture: AArch64<\/span><\/strong>\r\nCPU variant : 0x0<\/span><\/strong>\r\nCPU part : 0xd03<\/span><\/strong>\r\nCPU revision : 3<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Hardware : HiKey Development Board<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
At least this board does not need the Android fastboot<\/em> to update the kernel image, and kernel compilation can more easily be done on the system itself, rather than cross-compiling..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next stage will be to see if I can get the 4.1-rc4 Linaro kernel to boot successfully..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 July 8, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n
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I had another ARM64 system on order for some time, and – unexpectedly – it shipped a few days ago.. It is an 8-core ‘Hikey’ board, based on the same 96Boards outline as the DragonBoard 410c.. So far, I have it booting – with the Linaro\/Hikey 3.18 kernel – and have put Fedora 22 on it.. Fedora …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1132,1131,10,1146],"tags":[1149,1148,1133,101,1097,1147,242,1175],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-fedora","category-hikey","tag-8-cores","tag-96boards","tag-arm64","tag-boot","tag-fedora-22","tag-hikey","tag-linux","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}