[fedora-arm] New to the list

[Robert Nelson]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Frank <ultima.ratio.regum69 at gmail.com> 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
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