I was also leaning toward the nvidia tegra 3. which i have used in my nexus 7 and im very happy with the performance but might be overkill for my application or to develop my own board.
What are the specs of the current beaglebone board compared to the new one
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Mans Rullgard mans.rullgard@linaro.orgwrote:
On 15 April 2013 15:35, Wookey wookey@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