On Mon, Sep 24, 2012, Dave Pigott wrote:

I've just had a visit from a couple of guys from the ARM Fast Models team, and they asked an interesting question, namely would there be any interest for us of fast models of current hardware, such as Panda-es, new Samsung board etc.

Off the top of my head, I couldn't think of any, except if we say wanted to run a cluster type test where we might need several dedicated boards, but don't have sufficient real hardware. What about anyone else? Thoughts/ideas?

While not helping us directly, it might be a good way to offer Fast Models as part of DS-5 / some other SDK offer where you develop this or that app under Eclipse, then deploy it to your emulated pandaboard.

Linaro could validate its release images on these models as well; the models could help testing various hardware modes / combinations, or report some misuses (e.g. unaligned accesses or the like).