Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre <at> linaro.org> writes: > Hi folks, > > We've got a number of discount vouchers for these
Too late for me... > We're about to purchase a number > of these for buildds for the Debian armhf port Hmm. Are you sure it's the best choice? It has a single Cortex A8 (like the old Beagle Board). The Panda Board has a dual Coretex A9. I've not benchmarked them, but I would expect the Panda to be a lot faster for CPU-bound tasks. The iMX53 has the advantage of SATA if you expect to be I/O limited, but if I were building a "farm" I think I'd seriously consider NFS and negligible local storage. My choice of the iMX53 was based mainly on its video features (it has analogue VGA out, which the Panda doesn't) and more than a bit of prejudice because I seemed to be the interested only person at CELF last year who didn't get a free Panda. Anyway, if you do go with the iMX53, do keep us informed. I'm currently working on mechanical/electrical things e.g. a box and power supply. Note that the board seems to have very little capacitance on its 5V power input, so it can "brown out" if you connect something (via USB or otherwise) that has non-trivial inrush current. There is also the fact that it powers-on "off" until you press a button, which I imagine is probably not the behaviour that you'll want. Cheers, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20110805t174226-...@post.gmane.org
