My goal is to provide affordable point of sales systems. I was also considering some of the linaro dev boards that are available.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > +++ Serge Broslavsky [2013-04-15 15:11 +0300]: > > On 13.04.13 08:26 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > As i have a project, that might do sufficiently running on a dev > > > board, or even a custom developed arm based board. > > > > If you're trying to find some inexpensive ARM-based board for your > > project, without having any additional information from you, I'd > > recommend you starting with a Raspberry Pi [1]. > > Why? Pi's are cheap and popular but there are a couple of things wrong > with them. Primarily the rare v6+VFP flavour used by almost no-one > else so standard stuff either doesn't work (v7+VFP) and needs to be > rebuilt, or is poorly optimised (v5+softFP). Secondly the outrageous > claims of exemplary openness on a very closed platform (videocore). > > There are _so_ many other boards available which have neither of these > issues that it seems odd to recommend this one unless someone says 'I > have to have really cheap, but need full linux, I need easy IO Pins and > really don't care about freeness'. Or possibly 'I am clueless noob and > heard there is an RPi club near here'. Otherwise I'd suggest any > number of other boards. > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM > http://wookware.org/ > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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