From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 5.97.mail-out.ovh.net ([188.165.48.85] helo=97.mail-out.ovh.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QYIbF-0002NH-E0 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:03:41 +0200 Received: from mail422.ha.ovh.net (b9.ovh.net [213.186.33.59]) by 97.mail-out.ovh.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 33B684AAE62 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:22:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queueout) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 19 Jun 2011 12:21:00 +0200 Received: from tal33-3-82-233-81-124.fbx.proxad.net (HELO ?192.168.2.15?) (ebenard%eukrea.com@82.233.81.124) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 19 Jun 2011 12:20:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4DFDCD8B.9080309@eukrea.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:20:59 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Eric_B=E9nard?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4DFC4A9F.9080104@gmx.net> <4DFC51D6.5080508@eukrea.com> <20110619091521.GC23890@ibawizard.net> In-Reply-To: <20110619091521.GC23890@ibawizard.net> X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 14810931801649360201 X-Ovh-Remote: 82.233.81.124 (tal33-3-82-233-81-124.fbx.proxad.net) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.5/N X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK X-VR-SPAMSCORE: -112 X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: Vade Retro 01.322.06 AV+AS Profile: OVH; Bailout: 300; Url TLD (8); (-100); linux2x (-20) Subject: Re: FYI: Snowball (new low-cost board similar to beagle/panda) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:03:41 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 19/06/2011 11:15, Petr =A9tetiar wrote: > Eric B=E9nard [2011-06-18 09:20:54]: > >> it was announced on linux devices : >> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Calao-Systems-Snowball/ but as= you >> can see on their "community" site there are not much news since this d= ate : >> http://www.igloocommunity.org/ > > I wonder, if that SOC used on this board is going to be as "easily" sou= rceable > as it's the Omap4 on Pandaboard. Or it's meant to be sourced in the hug= e > quantities only also? > OMAP4 is actually not easily sourceable, TI's web site says : "This product is intended for high-volume wireless OEMs and ODMs and is n= ot=20 available through distributors." >> If you want to pay for an "open" board to become a "free" beta tester = for >> an other phone/tablet cpu manufacturer you can also wait for >> http://www.origenboard.org/ > > Ditto. > > And I sometimes wonder, which company is going to trademark some of the > buzzwords around the "free/open/community" first or even patent some ki= nd of > "free/open/community" work flow :-) > >> Next one in the list may be using an iMX6 from Freescale (in the page,= this >> one is said to also target industrial applications and not only >> phones/tablets) : >> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=3DIMX6X_SER= IES >> which will surely have its equivalent of the i.MX53's QSB : >> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=3DIMX53= QSB > > Good to know, I was wondering last week, what is that Loco board in the= Linux > kernel tree :-) > loco is qsb here again it's not clear why they chose loco for the board n= ame=20 in the kernel and qsb for the product name on the shelf ... Eric