On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:20:05AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM, John Luke Gibson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Obviously it's been mentioned before, since it's on the <a > > href=http://rhombus-tech.net/adapteva/>wiki</a>. > > There isn't much information on the page however. > > The core doesn't work standalone, however it is completely open with > > an HDL and a schematic; it is in the direction that a puristic libre > > system would be if not "technically" all the way there. The board > > itself has both(I think?) an arm and a x86 on board, simply because > > adapteva is too new to have enough libraries ported for a full os (I > > think?). > > Now their boards are $99 which is a jump from $40, so my question > > would be was price differential the reason why it wasn't included or > > where there too many compatibility/tooling issues? > > i believe i spoke to them (it may have been a different company), if > i recall correctly (which i probably don't) their core PCB (which they > haven't released) is 12-layer, which means "insanely expensive to > produce". > > mostly it's down to practicality of cost, and time. if people offer > to *pay* for these boards to be made, i'll get them done, no problem. >
Lovely board, lots of potential - but no community because it's hard to program the fast cores - lots of low level C programming to make best use of it, though someone did do a GNURadio port for Google Summer of Code a while back I was a Kickstarter backer - but chickened out of the significant porting effort needed. The orignal Kickstarter board came without significant heatsinking so needed extra fan cooling. There was an Ubuntu port for it - and it would probably run Debian with no huge problem - armhf. It's an ARM, FPGA and then however many Epiphany cores - Anders Olofssen (? spelling ?) built his ideal system for signal processing tasks because he couldn't find the necessary for his Ph.D - the paraphrase on lack of community is from his site. Ericsson and others have, however, funded additional R&D so they've got to 1024 core boards. Really useful for a compact supercomputer / specialist 5G hardware but fairly tough for pretty much everybody else to get a toehold because the initial learning curve is non-trivial. Andy C. > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
