Just saying, there are others out there like me who will not touch it for
$200 unless everything works properly. Perhaps in the grand scheme of
things, we make up a minority ?

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I think an open-order beta is reasonable, but I'd really emphasize
> it's beta.  As in: limited production run, higher list price, and
> maybe even make folks "qualify" or register somehow.
>
> Otherwise, I expect the SW issues to have dramatically less fireworks
> than the 'Bone, where the ARM transition to device-tree pretty much
> nuked most ARM development timelines for a year or so.  I think you
> made the right call (switch to DT and the new kernel ASAP), but none
> of the options were all that great.  With the X15, I expect more of
> the "conventional" Linux experience (update your kernel/os and new
> things start working) than what happened with the 'Bone (everything
> documented online about how to do something is now wrong).
>
> On 7/14/2015 11:15 AM, Jason Kridner wrote:
> > And for the software...
> >
> > Robert has an image that works pretty nicely on it, but there are a
> > lot of little features not enabled and there isn't a lot of
> > board-specific *software* documentation. Getting the OpenCL stuff
> > working out-of-the-box, the video acceleration, 2D/3D graphics
> > acceleration, etc., etc. is all a bit up in the air (ie., "almost
> > there, but not really"). We've got some software releases from TI, but
> > that doesn't mean its all properly integrated for use in the broader
> > open source community. To get there, we need to get more early boards
> > out to developers who can help test/debug the integration (and with
> > all the ringing, there are only a handful of boards today). The big
> > coordination question is do we have everyone wait to be able to buy
> > boards until the integrators have a good chance to try everything out
> > or do we let everyone try it at once. If we let everyone try it at
> > once, we really won't know if the software is ready or not. Could the
> > community really handle an open-order beta or is that just a recipe
> > for bad press?
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> These boards are what we call the "Beast". Any issues that may show up
> will
> >> be based on any added SW that can bring them out. This board is very
> over
> >> designed and we have been working on it for 20 months. It has been run
> >> through the ringer. SW is the big question.
> >>
> >> Gerald
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy <[email protected]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Of course it isn't as good as 200k for BBB :)
> >>> I wonder how many issues these 6k boards will have ;)
> >>>
> >>> 2015-07-14 18:11 GMT+03:00 Gerald Coley <[email protected]>:
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, it depends on how you look at it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gerald
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy <
> [email protected]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 6000 boards is a good deal for a pilot batch!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 14 Июл 2015 г. 17:46 пользователь "Gerald Coley"
> >>>>> <[email protected]> написал:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Delivery exact date for production is still up in the air. TI seems
> to
> >>>>>> be unable to tell us with any level of certainty when we can get
> processors.
> >>>>>> We have orders for 6,000 boards from distributors. We expect more
> orders in
> >>>>>> the coming weeks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gerald
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Robert Nelson
> >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Brett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> What's the news on the X15?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Do we know the Delivery date or Cost?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Estimates?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Looks like, someone failed to check:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-X15#What_is_the_expected_price.3F
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> First.. ;)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> Robert Nelson
> >>>>>>> https://rcn-ee.com/
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> 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.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Gerald
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [email protected]
> >>>>>> http://beagleboard.org/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Gerald
> >>>>
> >>>> [email protected]
> >>>> http://beagleboard.org/
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maximpodbereznyy
> >>> Company - http://www.linkedin.com/company/mentorel
> >>> Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mentorel.company
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gerald
> >>
> >> [email protected]
> >> http://beagleboard.org/
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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.
> >
>
>
> --
> Charles Steinkuehler
> [email protected]
>
> --
> 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.

Reply via email to