After getting my first exposure to aarch64/ARMv8/ARM64 at work the past few weeks, I'm curious to not just use it in the cloud, but also under my desk! We are cross-compiling from AMD64 to create ARM64 binaries for use in a subset of our canary environment, but it's started feeling weird to me that I cannot locally test my changes before they go out to production.
So, yesterday I ordered a Honeycomb LX2K Mini-ITX board, no relation to my employer honeycomb.io, and I'll have it up and running sometime next weekin May due to lack of stock! This post will be updated with my build and findings! and I've written up the install instructions
Part list (with the help of /r/sffpc):
- Lone Industries L5 case
- Minibox 160 XT PSU
- Radeon Pro WX 3200 half-height GPU
- Honeycomb LX2K Mini-ITX board
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Any old DDR4 RAMG.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 260-Pin DDR4 SO-DIMM - 512GB M.2 SSD
I'm excited to try:
- Native builds of Debian/Ubuntu packages, with my own GPG keys available
- Wine Hangover for x86_64 games
- Seeing if I can get Zoom, Chrome, etc. to work given they're built for ChromeOS aarch64 which is Linux under the hood
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