Hi all,
In order to verify the images generated by Linaro, we'll have to start the verification on real platforms. As of now, I am proposing that we test on _atleast_ the boards in the following table. These boards were chosen for their general availability[1] to us inside Linaro, to external developers and their cost. Also, I've only listed Cortex-A8/A9-based boards.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoC Board name Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TI OMAP3 Beagleboard C2, C3, C4 Very popular
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard XM 512Mb RAM, 37xx, limited availability for now
Freescale i.MX51 Babbage2.5, Babbage3.0 Public availability to be checked
TI OMAP4 Panda Public availability 4Q? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please feel free to suggest other boards that might help the community get involved in testing, verification and development of Linaro. I can't promise that we'll include all of them in our test setup, but where possible we'll try to enable support for these boards (in the kernel, for example) so that developers can use the pre-built images with some modifications on their favourite boards.
One other factor we need to worry about is enablement of the platform in the mainline kernel. Some boards such as the Freescale Babbage have only the very basic HW support in mainline currently. So we will have to enable enough of the platform in mainline to make it worthwhile testing on that board.
Regards, Amit
[1] HW Availability is an ongoing problem and we're trying to do the best with what we already have or will definitely have in the near future.