Wookey I'm trying to weigh all my options before going down the line of developing my own board On Apr 15, 2013 7:05 PM, "Wookey" <woo...@wookware.org> wrote:
> +++ Renato Golin [2013-04-15 16:24 +0100]: > > On 15 April 2013 15:36, Jonathan Aquilina <[1]eagles051...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > It seems you won't be using fancy 3D graphics, so the video card is > near > > > irrelevant, here. You should be able to get accelerated 2D graphics > with > > > most SoCs, even if not using open source drivers. Wookie might know > some > > > boards that have decent OSS video drivers, but if you don't care > (most > > > people don't), you should be fine. > > > There are a number of v7 that you might consider. I would go for > anything > > > that is equal or higher than a dual/quad-core A9 (Pandaboard ES, > Odroid, > > > Tegra3), but there are also newer dual-core A15 (which is at least > 2x > > > faster than dual-A9), on several flavours (Arndale, Chromebook, > Odroid, > > > Tegra4). > > > You might also try the very cheap "AllWinner A10" which is > essentially a > > > Beagleboard (dual-core A8). > > > My goal is to provide affordable point of sales systems. I was also > > considering some of the linaro dev boards that are available. > > I just updated the Debian RPi wiki page to point people at some > alternatives: > > https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi > > The Cubieboard is a nice option. mk802's are nice and cheap. The above > page and the freedombox hardware list (linked from there) is a good > place to start to see what boards might suit your purposes. > > For anyone looking to make hardware which a linux COM (Computer on > module) plugs into, the EOMA68 spec produced by Rhombus Tech is > something to keep an eye on. That provides standard IO for various > comuter modules (the first is an Allwinner A10-based one, of which > first hardware arrived 3 days ago apparently). So you make your bit of > hardware with a PCMCIA socket on for the COM to go in. You will > hopefully get second-sourcing this way. > > http://rhombus-tech.net/ > http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/news/ > > Most of the boards linaro is supporting directly are a bit high-end > for running a POS system, and I'm not aware of any of them being aimed > at low-volume manufacturers who aren't wanting to lay out their own > boards (which sounds like where you are coming from). > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM > http://wookware.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev >
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