On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:39:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Then again, the imx53s are not as stable as I had hoped. Of the 9 I > set up, 1 is just about dead and another is dying. They're also really > unhappy with the pl2303 USB serial adapters I've got, which is a PITA.
Yes pl2303's are just crap. If possible find a FTDI based serial adapter. Unfortunately most that are easy to find use the crappy pl2303 chip. > They're in a bigger version of the mini-rack kit that the armhf > machines live in; this was the inspiration for that setup. I didn't > get a photo before I installed them, unfortunately. Imagine a > double-height (i.e. 6U) version of what's in the photo at > http://blog.einval.com/2011/09/05#armhf_buildds. It wouldn't be hard > to set up something similar again, but almost definitely not worth it > for just a single board. > > The new imx6 boards look like they might be helpful, but again they're > designed as dev boards and I'm not sure of the exact specs for what we > might be able to get hold of. Highbank is where I want to go, and I'm > hoping to talk to some Calxeda folks next week in HK so I can pester > them again for hardware... :-) Do they have imx6 dev boards now? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
