On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Frank <ultima.ratio.regum69@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I agree with you about the beagleboard but two two others things will > be available in a few months. > A low-cost netbook (200$) with freescale platform (before this summer > it seems and with ubuntu-arm i believe) and a similar thing with > qualcomm (don't know when). This two products will be less "geeky" > than beagleboard and more usable (or attractive) for the average joe. > > As you said, the big trouble with ARM is, except instructions set, a > lot of things change from one CPU to another : GPU, SIMD, ... > It remember me the old days of first PC GPU : an API from each > manufacturer. It may be a drawback in a near future as i'm not sure > mplayer, xorg, openssl, ... can use these SoC at their full potential. > > Regards, > > Frank There's also that Marvel SheevaPlug (1) for $100, although only 'armv5' but 1.2Ghz/512Mb which i've pre-ordered and planning to add to my current beagle farm. mplayer - the arm maintainer (ffmpeg) is very active on the beagleboard irc/forums. He is doing his best discovering every neon/gcc related bug. (quite a few in gcc 4.3 for armv7-a) xorg - most arm cores use an old closed source binary blob from powervr... 1: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
