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Posted Nov 15, 2016 15:53 UTC (Tue) by fratti (guest, #105722)
Parent article: Topics in live kernel patching

I am surprised there is a port in the works for arm64, but not SPARC. I'd have guessed users running SPARC were more interested in livepatching, considering the sorts of applications SPARC is usually found in.

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Posted Nov 16, 2016 7:40 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (4 responses)

Perhaps you didn't notice how Oracle has been fairly effectively killing the popularity of the former Sun's hardware? I mean maybe in the space you operate, it's still clinging on, but in the *many* IT spaces I've touched in that timeframe, Solaris & Sparc have become purely legacy.

Meanwhile, arm is growing. You can get cloud services instances running on arm these days.

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Posted Nov 17, 2016 14:11 UTC (Thu) by RCL (guest, #63264) [Link] (3 responses)

Where? Serious question since I'd like to give ARM a try for servers, but the support among cloud providers seems to be non-existent. A few small startups get oversubscribed apparently and just put you in the line to be informed "when hardware is available".

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Posted Nov 19, 2016 11:43 UTC (Sat) by nyfle (guest, #72967) [Link]

In the absence of a reply, I thought I'd add my 2p worth:

Scaleway - https://www.scaleway.com

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Posted Nov 19, 2016 21:59 UTC (Sat) by mmendez (subscriber, #81435) [Link] (1 responses)

Also checkout packet.net's just released Type-2A servers (2x48 core Cavium ThunderX processors) https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-2a. Hard to get one right now as they are being scooped up very quickly, but we are going to be bringing in more online.

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Posted Nov 20, 2016 18:48 UTC (Sun) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link]

This reminded me of the LWN article "Creating a kernel build farm" from Oct 5 (https://lwn.net/Articles/702375/). Does anyone have insight into the economics of using this solution instead of "going small"?

Packet.net advertises a price of USD 0.5 per hour. You'll get quite a lot of hours for the price of four MiQi boards (16 A17 cores total) plus all the extra necessary gear (switch, power supply, cabling, etc).