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.

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Mans Rullgard / mru