On 15 April 2013 15:35, 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).
It's not that rare if you look around. The same core was used in iPhone up to and including the 3G, and the Nokia N8x0 tablets used a very similar v6+vfp (1136). > Secondly the outrageous > claims of exemplary openness on a very closed platform (videocore). This cannot be stressed enough. > 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 Then the Beaglebone is generally a better choice. There's a new version of it coming out shortly that's faster _and_ cheaper than the current one. -- Mans Rullgard / mru _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
