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ARM Allwinner A10, Cubieboard Come To Coreboot
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Originally posted by pgeorgi View PostIn general, coreboot's ARM support is still under construction. There are a number of boards that are experimentally supported, but supporting more SoCs ensures that we build something for everything.
As for the user benefits, firmware is supposed to stay out of the way, so end users won't see much of them. For developers (which are also "users" of firmware code bases), coreboot offers different design decisions in a number of places: We try to separate hardware init from "user interface" (where uboot combines both), we try to keep the hardware init part small (I think that was one of the reasons why the Qi bootloader project was started, too), we try to keep vendor branches at a minimum, and finally we don't shy away from tree cleanups across all boards and architectures (since there are few decisions that truly stand the test of time - and hardware progress).
In the end we hope this provides a code base that is more pleasing to work with, but that's obviously both biased and a matter of taste :-)
This is a general statement, so I don't know which of these things motivated Alexandru to do the port (if any), but http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/co...ry/076972.html points at least to the cleanup thing... If in doubt, it was "because - why not?"
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Originally posted by Candide View PostI have an Odroid-X, which I purchase last year. It's now been superseded by the Odroid-XU ($139):
...and the less expensive Odroid-U3 ($59):
As yet, no 64-bit Odroid board, but I would guess it will be available sometime in 2014. No idea what the price would be. I'm torn between upgrading to the XU now or waiting for a 64-bit board.
What is the open source driver situation there?
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I also have a cubietruck. I got it shortly before christmas and have been unable to compile a working kernel. Most annoying. It's running Debian Sid with the lubuntu kernel (3.4.61).
Otherwise it's an interesting little board. The 2GB of RAM and dual core processor make it quite capable. The simple "open" case is rather compact and includes screw holes to mount a 2.5" HDD/SSD. The SATA port is great for adding real storage, but being only a single port limits its usefulness as a server. A cluster of them could be interesting though.
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The Dragonboard seems very cool. It is a pico-ITX board based on Snapdragon S4.
ARM quad-core Krait CPU, 2GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi. Too bad USB 2, not USB 3.
Its the same stuff powering the Nexus 4 phone.
Too bad its only available with Android support, they are working on Linux support.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostThe Dragonboard seems very cool. It is a pico-ITX board based on Snapdragon S4.
ARM quad-core Krait CPU, 2GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi. Too bad USB 2, not USB 3.
Its the same stuff powering the Nexus 4 phone.
Too bad its only available with Android support, they are working on Linux support.
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