HiSense Chromebook Benchmarks When Running Ubuntu Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HiSense Chromebook Benchmarks When Running Ubuntu Linux

Ealier this year the HiSense Chromebook was released at Walmart in the US, a 11.6-inch quad-core ARM notebook priced at just $149 USD and running ChromeOS. But how well does it run Ubuntu Linux?..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HiSense-Chromebook-Ubuntu

[mitcoes]

It will be great to benchmark "ubuntubooks", native ones as the Dell one http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15...-laptop-ubuntu and chromebooks with ubuntu installed even native vs Crouton performance, and of course with a price / performance box and not only to benchmark the SoCs, being laptops the screen the keyboard, the touchpad and the webcam are also elements to benchmark.

[chithanh]

It looks like the benchmarked system was compiled with --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 which is kind of suboptimal (will use only 16 of the 32 available FP registers).

[davidlt]

It looks like the benchmarked system was compiled with --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 which is kind of suboptimal (will use only 16 of the 32 available FP registers).

That tends to be a default, probably to support a wider hardware selection.

[DeepDayze]

That tends to be a default, probably to support a wider hardware selection.

Perhaps Michael should test this particulat Chromebook with the setting to allow ALL 32 registers to be used to see if it is compatible.

[Exdeus]

And here I thought Ubuntu didn't exist in ARM flavor anymore...
Looks like I was wrong. But I don't seem able to find anything

[chithanh]

That tends to be a default, probably to support a wider hardware selection.

Probably. But it will put Ubuntu at a disadvantage vs. ChromeOS which is compiled to match the target platform. vfpv3-d16 vs. d32 can make a significant difference in FP-heavy code (~20% in OpenBLAS GEMM).

And here I thought Ubuntu didn't exist in ARM flavor anymore...
Looks like I was wrong. But I don't seem able to find anything

There are official Ubuntu downloads for ARM and also builds provided by Linaro.

[Exdeus]

Thanks mate !
They seem to be for really specific devices. Wich one would you advise for a chromebook ?

[unrulycow]

I'm the person that ran the benchmarks. They were run under crouton, as even with debugging features enabled and attempting to manually enable USB boot from the command line, I am unable to get it to actually boot from USB. There doesn't appear to be any custom BIOS available for this model for me to use to fix the boot issue. I have it in my possession for a few more days if anyone knows how to get this specific model to boot from USB (instructions for other models have already been tried) or has other tests that they want me to run in crouton.