From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Graeme Russ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:29:27 +1000 Subject: [U-Boot] Seeking ARM development platform suggestions In-Reply-To: <50333918.9050105@denx.de> References: <5032DBFE.90703@lundman.net> <50333918.9050105@denx.de> Message-ID: <50337F27.6040601@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Stefan, On 08/21/2012 05:30 PM, Stefan Roese wrote: [snip] >>> The general "mood" of the embedded dev community seems to be, to me, to move >>> away from these Companies, as the promised source releases has not been >>> sufficient. The current interest seems to be AM.logic's dualcore board. >>> (http://ao2.it/en/blog/2012/08/10/amlogic-aml8726-mx-linux-kernel-code-released) >> >> Seems to be more tablet oriented - can't find any 'media players' based on this > > There seem to be plenty. Check here for an overview: > > http://www.j1nx.nl/xbmc-amlogic-8726-m-pivos-xios-an-initial-investigation/ Thanks for the link. Looks like it uses the same GPU (Mali 400) as the AllWinner A10 The Geniatech Enjoy TV series looks pretty good, particularly the ATV1000: http://geniatech.com/pa/atv1000.asp I can get an ATV1000 for ~AU$135 with: - 800MHz Cortex A9 (not sure if it's the dual-core AML8726-MX or the single core AML8726-M1) - A remote - 2x external USB - A nicer looking case (going by the photos) - No SATA connection - Better FOSS support (?) I can get a Mele A2000 for ~AU$100 with: - 1GHz Cortex A8 Allwinner A10 - No Remote - 3x External USB - A not so nice looking case - SATA - Worse FOSS support (?) Oh the agony :( Considering it will probably be turned into a disk-less Linux workstation in a couple of years, I'm leaning towards the ATV1000 (no need for SATA) Thoughts? Regards, Graeme