I can sit and think about tons of reasons why the beaglebone line is heads( and tails ) above the rest. But the two most prominent in my own mind . . .
1) It is a real embedded system unlike most ( all? ) "comparable" boards out there. Plenty ways to interface the board to the outside world, and TI is the only ARM licensee who has PRUs one die( or otherwise ) that I'm aware of. 2) A real Linux distribution that is well documented. Not some fork of a real distro, or some made up crappy distro because no one felt like supporting a dated instruction set. This means "we" have the whole Linux open source community to work with. Instead of having to perform secrete handshakes, or special incantations / magic hand waving every time the kernel changes. the rPI 2 should be inline with #2 above, but we'll see how well their BSP shapes up. After that though. They're using the same old GPU . . . On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Chris Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi William. > > I'm a big fan of the bbb. I like its wide range of io, the headers that > make it stable when mounted on a cape and its price point. It also uses a > CPU that I could put into my own design, unlike the Broadcom soc on the pi2 > that I guess you need some magic handshake and millions of units to get > access to. > > I see the x15 aimed at a different market due to cost and features. That's > a good question though. Who is the x15 intended for? Why choose the x15 > over say a minnowboard max? > > I'd like to help keep the bbb more on par with the cpu power of the pi2. > Basically a bbb v2 with a multi core cpu, and maybe 1gb of ram as its > leading features at a similar price point. I'm not sure if TI has any > sitara quad cores in the works that might be candidates. > > I've done some digital circuit design, board bring up, uboot, etc. I'd be > willing to help in any effort if circuitco, Gerald etc were interested. > Plus the company I work for is using the bbb in a design and we could > benefit from another CPU or three. > > Chris > > > > On Saturday, April 25, 2015, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are boards out there with SATA on them that cost less than the BBB >> does right now. That are around the same size. >> >> >> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2/open-source-hardware >> >> That is one. Robert even has build instructions for it . . . but drivers >> still seemed to be in infancy last i looked. >> >> Anyway Chris you should be more precise on what you want. If you want any >> serious feedback. Which crowd do you think benefits from using a BBB but >> not the X15 ? Are we talking pure cost, or something else ? Granted, I'm >> also expecting the cost of the X15 to be out of the casual hobbyist range. >> Which may have been by design ? >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Chris Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Graham. >>> >>> I've been watching the x15 project. It doesn't look like the same kind >>> of board for the same kind of end user imo. eSATA isn't something we'd >>> use (we are ok with sd or emmc for these limited uses), audio codec is >>> interesting but wonder if that also increases cost for people that >>> don't need it, same with the expansion connector, 2GB of ram vs. 1GB >>> etc. >>> >>> I think a BBB v2 would be a lower performance/capability point than >>> say the x15, something more price/performance in line with the Pi2 >>> than a minnowboard. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Graham <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-X15 >>> > >>> > == >>> > >>> > -- >>> > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> > --- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> > "BeagleBoard" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an >>> > email to [email protected]. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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