You misread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Specifications RPi2 has 1 Gigabyte RAM, not Megabyte.
/JG On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Zac Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > Kaspar & Adam, > > Thanks for the ideas (lejos and non-JVM langs). I am already in touch with > the lejos admin. > > All, > > An earlier suggestion was to investigate SOCs like Raspberry Pi or > BeaglBoard. At first I thought: OK this is exactly what I need! But now > that I'm really thinking about it, there's something that leaves me feeling > uneasy here. > > So the main argument against the ARM SAM3X8E for a JVM is that it only has > 512KB ROM and 96KB RAM. But after researching the RaspberryPi, the later > models are using an ARM Cortex-A7 CPU that, according to Wikipedia it has > 1MB RAM. So this doesn't make sense: why is RaspberryPi touted as a > JVM-capable ARM-based SOC, whereas SAM3X8E is totally incapable of such a > feat (nothing in the modern Java landscape will run on 1MB). > > Clearly I'm missing something here, but: what is the difference between > RapsberryPi's ARM processor vs SAM3X8E that makes it capable of running a > Java app?!? > > Thanks, > Zac > > > > > On 8/12/15 2:30 PM, Adam Hunt wrote: > > While I applaud the idea of getting something as heavyweight as a JVM to run > on the type of devices that most of us on this list are targeting have you > thought about non-JVM languages? I've often wondered how small of a system > Erlang could be persuaded to running on. > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:47 AM Kaspar Schleiser <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> On 08/12/2015 01:36 PM, Zac Harvey wrote: >> > still planning on using RIOT-OS if it all possible. >> >> When you're evaluating embedded JVMs, take a look at the VM used by >> leJOS. It seems like it could rather easily be cut out of the OS, and it >> is apparently very capable even on the lego NXTs (64kb RAM, 256kB >> flash), and seems like more than a research proof-of-concept. >> >> Kaspar >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
