On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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?
strictly speaking this is the wrong question: it *is* a Cortex A7.
if it was "compatible" that would imply that it was some sort of
clone, which it's not. allwinner are licensees of ARM cores,
including the Cortex A7.
Does it do hardware virtualization,
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a7.php
apparently yes. which is pretty amazing.