On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:47:39PM +0100, Bortis Kevin wrote: > Nice board. It seems that they have learned from some design flaws of their > original arndale board design. Three things that I think are still criticall: > 1. They still have no reasonable cooling solution and no mounting holes for a > standard cooler/fan. The orginal arndale board got overheated really fast > with a working clock of over 1GHz and was therefor very unstable.
Not sure if it would be a problem. I am currently playing with an early eval board with a dual Cortex-A15 at 1.5GHz without a heatsink, and running one full out as a buildd to experiment with. The other 10 miscelanious cores are idle at the moment, but over all I think it is supposed to run at 2 or 3W, so that CPU there might only use 5 or 6W running full out unless you actually decide you want to use the graphics, which might take a bit more. Of course the board I am playing with does have SATA and 1.5GB ram, which I am very pleased with. > 2. The board is missing a SATA connector. The internal eMMC is far to slow > for speedy sw development. Yeah, best I have seen from eMMC so far was 28MB/s. Better than microSD at 20MB/s, but not SATA. > 3. There is still no working graphic driver with 3D/video acceleration that > would work with vanilla debian. There is only an android blob available. > Perhaps someone could try to get it running with libhybris/wayland, but this > would be nothing more than a hack. It also looks like ethernet is connected via USB. That and the lack of sata is just a typical problem with the CPUs designed for use in a smartphone. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20131029190449.gv13...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca