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.
This might be interesting, OMAP3 based tablet/laptop type device @$299
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Shankar Ganesh shankarganeshk@gmail.comwrote:
Please feel free to suggest other boards that might help the community get involved in testing, verification and development of Linaro. I
Tegra 250 dev board - A9 dual Core will be of interest
Linaro-dev mailing list Linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
Joel
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:33:44 -0500 Joel Crisp cydergoth@gmail.com wrote:
This might be interesting, OMAP3 based tablet/laptop type device @$299
I'll believe that those things actually exist (in non-prototype form) when I see one :-).
Julian
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:33:44 -0500 Joel Crisp cydergoth@gmail.com wrote:
This might be interesting, OMAP3 based tablet/laptop type device @$299
I'll believe that those things actually exist (in non-prototype form) when I see one :-).
Oh you just need to order one and wait for the next build/shipment... ;)
I've had mine since March...
Regards,
Hello!
This might be interesting, OMAP3 based tablet/laptop type device @$299
I'll believe that those things actually exist (in non-prototype form) when I see one :-).
I'm waiting one touchbook from CELF for kexecboot project. It's on back order right now. I can do some tests for you when it will arrive :)
Also we have relative big Sharp Zaurus users community ;)
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:33:44 -0500 Joel Crisp cydergoth@gmail.com wrote:
This might be interesting, OMAP3 based tablet/laptop type device @$299
I'll believe that those things actually exist (in non-prototype form) when I see one :-).
We actually have a couple of those. Very flimsy HW but a nice concept. The default kernels are missing the display drivers for this board and they need to push their patches into mainline.
/Amit
The FriendlyARM is a cheep and powerful kit. It comes with LCD and all the other stuff. It is also Linux preloaded.
http://www.watterott.com/en/FriendlyARM?x2a4c1=nim3kphi39c1huqols3vo1j145
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria@linaro.orgwrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:33:44 -0500 Joel Crisp cydergoth@gmail.com wrote:
This might be interesting, OMAP3 based tablet/laptop type device @$299
I'll believe that those things actually exist (in non-prototype form) when I see one :-).
We actually have a couple of those. Very flimsy HW but a nice concept. The default kernels are missing the display drivers for this board and they need to push their patches into mainline.
/Amit
Linaro-dev mailing list Linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
Dnia czwartek, 24 czerwca 2010 o 07:37:47 Tarek El-Sherbiny napisał(a):
The FriendlyARM is a cheep and powerful kit. It comes with LCD and all the other stuff. It is also Linux preloaded.
But it uses s3c2440 which is armv4t. Linaro concentrate on armv7 cpus.
And yes - FriendlyARM boards are nice and cheap way to get into embedded Linux.
Regards,
+++ Tarek El-Sherbiny [2010-06-24 06:37 +0100]:
The FriendlyARM is a cheep and powerful kit. It comes with LCD and all the other stuff. It is also Linux preloaded.
But it's S3C2440A-based which is arm9, which is armv6 so no thumb2 support. Hardware which doesn't have thumb2 support isn't much use for testing current ubuntu-arm/linaro output, unless I am misunderstanding exactly what people are wanting to test?
Wookey
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote:
SoC Board name Comments
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard C2, C3, C4 Very popular
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard XM 512Mb RAM, 37xx, limited availability for now
I think we considered buying an IGEPv2 board to evaluate and support it because it has builtin ethernet and 512 MB of RAM, just like BeagleXM -- but is in stock today. But it should probably get on some list once someone has it in his hands and can confirm supporting it is possible and makes sense
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote:
SoC Board name Comments
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard C2, C3, C4 Very popular
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard XM 512Mb RAM, 37xx, limited availability for now
I think we considered buying an IGEPv2 board to evaluate and support it because it has builtin ethernet and 512 MB of RAM, just like BeagleXM -- but is in stock today. But it should probably get on some list once someone has it in his hands and can confirm supporting it is possible and makes sense
Agreed.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote:
SoC Board name Comments
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard C2, C3, C4 Very popular
TI OMAP3 Beagleboard XM 512Mb RAM, 37xx, limited availability for now
I think we considered buying an IGEPv2 board to evaluate and support it because it has builtin ethernet and 512 MB of RAM, just like BeagleXM -- but is in stock today. But it should probably get on some list once someone has it in his hands and can confirm supporting it is possible and makes sense
Agreed.
I have one up and running, besides enabling CONFIG_MTD_ONENAND and CONFIG_LIBERTAS it's very close to the beagle config..
You'll also find there are quiet a few dev's with overo boards..
Regards,
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010, Robert Nelson wrote:
You'll also find there are quiet a few dev's with overo boards..
Could you comment on how hard it is to support the various flavors? If we support the "Fire" version, will it cover well enough for the lighter alternatives?
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010, Robert Nelson wrote:
You'll also find there are quiet a few dev's with overo boards..
Could you comment on how hard it is to support the various flavors? If we support the "Fire" version, will it cover well enough for the lighter alternatives?
That is correct, it will.. The fire/air/water/earth modules all use the Omap35xx, they just vary if it's the model with builtin SGX or DSP hardware. The mainline kernel can already auto-detect the presence of those features. Beyond that, they just vary if they have bluetooth or wifi.
Regards,
Hello Loïc,
2010/6/28 Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org:
I think we considered buying an IGEPv2 board to evaluate and support it because it has builtin ethernet and 512 MB of RAM, just like BeagleXM -- but is in stock today. But it should probably get on some list once someone has it in his hands and can confirm supporting it is possible and makes sense
What about Genesi-USA, EfikaMX board? http://www.genesi-usa.com/products
PS Some colleagues are using IGEPv2 boards for a comercial product development and they are quite happy with them. Let me know if you need something from IGEP people, they are based at my home country.
Cheers,
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010, Hector Oron wrote:
What about Genesi-USA, EfikaMX board? http://www.genesi-usa.com/products
Like the Overo boards, I think this is a good suggestion of an iMX51 board. We dont have any though, but 250 USD is worth considering. Would be nice if we could test community testing for these.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Hector Oron hector.oron@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Loïc,
2010/6/28 Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org:
I think we considered buying an IGEPv2 board to evaluate and support it because it has builtin ethernet and 512 MB of RAM, just like BeagleXM -- but is in stock today. But it should probably get on some list once someone has it in his hands and can confirm supporting it is possible and makes sense
What about Genesi-USA, EfikaMX board? http://www.genesi-usa.com/products
Hector,
Can anybody confirm if the EfikaMX board works with the kernel code that I already pushed to mainline?
If not, I'll gladly take patches to enable the board in the linux kernel.
Cheers, Amit
Hello Amit,
2010/6/29 Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria@linaro.org:
Can anybody confirm if the EfikaMX board works with the kernel code that I already pushed to mainline?
If not, I'll gladly take patches to enable the board in the linux kernel.
I have not tested personally, but one of the efika devels has tried it and states it does not. Currently they are using freescale SDK, http://gitorious.org/efikamx/
Cheers,
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Hector Oron hector.oron@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Amit,
2010/6/29 Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria@linaro.org:
Can anybody confirm if the EfikaMX board works with the kernel code that I already pushed to mainline?
If not, I'll gladly take patches to enable the board in the linux kernel.
I have not tested personally, but one of the efika devels has tried it and states it does not. Currently they are using freescale SDK, http://gitorious.org/efikamx/
Too bad it doesn't work. It would be a nice way to get more people interested/contributing to mainline porting effort for i.MX5x SoCs.
It shouldn't be a very big patch though, as evidenced by support for the 3stack boards that was just added to mainline. Unfortunately, without HW or documentation I can't make a guess of really how big.
On Wednesday 23 June 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote:
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.
The Dell Streak seems to be easily available in online shops, though it is a bit more expensive (399,- GBP): http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/specification/Dell/Streak_16GB_PayG
Similarly, the Lenovo Skylight might be an interesting alternative when it becomes available. The first version did not get released though, because Lenovo moved away from their own Linux to an upcoming Android port.
Both the Streak and the Skylight are based on a Snapdragon core rather than Cortex-A8, so they might be interesting for the sake of having an alternative ARMv7 implementation to test on.
Arnd
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