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. 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