On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim >> Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk >> at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. >> > > I know that several ARMS talk to disks via the USB chain versus a > dedicated SATA like connection. This causes all kinds of issues when 2 > things talk down the bus to the disk drive (just like if it is a > spinning disk). The same with network and other peripheals. It will > depend on how the hardware sees it and talks to it to know if it will > work well or not. [My kingdom for an ARM PCI bus :)] Send me your kingdom... there's now a number of ARM devices with PCI-e buses, or SATA/NICs plugged directly into the SoC so not hanging off crappy USB/SPI/GPIO/i2c buses :-D Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
