On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:07:06PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre <at> linaro.org> writes: > > Hi folks, > > > > We've got a number of discount vouchers for these > > Too late for me... > > > We're about to purchase a number > > of these for buildds for the Debian armhf port > > Hmm. Are you sure it's the best choice? It has a single Cortex A8 (like > the old Beagle Board). The Panda Board has a dual Coretex A9. I've not > benchmarked them, but I would expect the Panda to be a lot faster for > CPU-bound tasks. The iMX53 has the advantage of SATA if you expect to be > I/O limited, but if I were building a "farm" I think I'd seriously consider > NFS and negligible local storage.
make + NFS = nightmare in many cases. > My choice of the iMX53 was based mainly on its video features (it has > analogue VGA out, which the Panda doesn't) and more than a bit of > prejudice because I seemed to be the interested only person at CELF last > year who didn't get a free Panda. > > Anyway, if you do go with the iMX53, do keep us informed. I'm currently > working on mechanical/electrical things e.g. a box and power supply. Note > that the board seems to have very little capacitance on its 5V power input, > so it can "brown out" if you connect something (via USB or otherwise) that > has non-trivial inrush current. There is also the fact that it powers-on > "off" until you press a button, which I imagine is probably not the behaviour > that you'll want. I was wondering how their power control is done. Obviously a SATA drive would need external power. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
