Riku Voipio <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:24:32PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: >> Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_arm <at> chezphil.org> writes: >> > peter green <plugwash <at> p10link.net> writes: >> > > It looks like a new samsung based devboard has come out (though it's not >> > > scheduled to actually ship until november). >> > >> > Ignore it until it actually exists. >> >> Maybe it does now exist, and is worth investigating :-) > > Have now one as well, so it clearly does exist :) > > One thing that might surprise people used to beagleboard/pandaboard > style boards is that this one is actually quite large. > > Booting and running the board using the quick setup instructions from: > > https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Arndale/Setup/EnterpriseUbuntuServer > > Work just fine. The kernel is quite fresh (3.7-rc2 based) and is about > 4000 lines / 40 changed away from mainline. The only major stumbling > block to debian support is that the exynos kernel isn't single zimage > ready (yet). Also, support for 3D acceleration and video codec > acceleration is android-only and propiertary.
I've to disagree here. While having single image support would be nice, it's not supported by debian kernel (yet, it's on todo-list) so it's not a big blocker. Moreover, we're still far from having the number of kernels for armel. Nevertheless, the main blocker is needing patches which are not mainline. > >> I agree with Peter that it is an interesting board. The USB ethernet is >> unfortunate, but looking on the bright side that might be better-supported >> than >> some unknown SoC ethernet thing. > > USB ethernet is ASIX based and seems to work fine (once you set up mac > address). eSATA didn't work for me reliably, but sata code is still said to be > work in progress and my HD isn't in the list of (currently) supported > drivers of the above wikipage. what do you mean ? if one wants to use sata, one has to use one of the HD listed ? that sounds weird/wrong and rather annoying in case you need to replace a failing drive. Arnaud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
