On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:39:17 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<[email protected]> wrote:
[ um... freedombox people... tell me... why was the shitty little
NDA-loving armv5 marvell sheeva guwwu pwug chosen over the
freedom-respecting really rather dishy little IMX53QSB? i realise
it's good to break marvell of their paranoia habit but even so... ]
Well, there is one very good thing about the Marvell SheevaPlug, and
that is that every bit of hardware in it is supported in the mainline
kernel, including the crypto engine. And there's no GPU over which to
grind the usual axe. I don't believe the Freescale have as much mainline
support, so technically, as far as OSS support goes, Marvell is pretty
good. Whether that is through Marvell's contribution or not I don't
know, but in terms of what the end user gets to work with, it's seldom
matched and hard to beat.
Gordan
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