very interesting. For Xorg, it's what i fear the most : on old closed-source blob. :-) but that's another topic. Thanks. 2009/3/16, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
