Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It's a waste of time :-) In terms of availability, we'll have some C2 units soon, and then a good batch of ramp units. (Is anyone crying for hw?) In terms of performance, for big compiles, you're better off looking at something like a trimslice, though I wish there was an option with more than 1G DRAM. I hear that more grunty multicore ARMv7 SoCs are in the pipeline, but not in the market yet. You may be able to get a devkit for one of those :-) My guess is that next year there'll be options... cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75
Bringing devel back into the loop On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The New Zealand team don't appear to have any C1, and are hitting B1 problems regularly ... please ensure they get C2. Thanks for the info. Will do. We have some B1s in stock. We are short on C1s because they're in the S/R testbed. When Wad decides to disband or shrink the testbed, we'll ship C1s (and/or C2s) more liberally... But back to this discussion thread, a B1 is /much/ better than a raspberry pi :-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:07:10PM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: Bringing devel back into the loop Oh. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The New Zealand team don't appear to have any C1, and are hitting B1 problems regularly ... please ensure they get C2. Not at all implying that they shouldn't hit B1 problems regularly; the New Zealand team is doing excellent work and I'm very happy with it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It looks like the Pi is ARM11 based (v6 arch) and the XO has a v7 arch. The current 11.3.0 release is based on Fedora 14 armv5tel which runs already on the Raspberry Pi and it'll happily run sugar. The 12.1.0 and later releases will run the Fedora 17 hardfp based release which isn't binary compatible. Its as compatible as any other device that is capable of running Fedora (arm or x86 based) so not completely useless but at the same time not the best. The specs in terms of speed and memory are actually not that different to the specs (processor architecture aside) in the original XO-1 as the more expensive board has the same amount of RAM. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75
How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It looks like the Pi is ARM11 based (v6 arch) and the XO has a v7 arch. Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Raspberry Pi as development platform for XO-1.75
Hi, On Sat, Nov 26 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How useful could a Raspberry Pi be as a development platform for the XO-1.75? It looks like the Pi is ARM11 based (v6 arch) and the XO has a v7 arch. You've correctly described why it probably won't be useful -- almost every distribution compiles for ARMv7, including Fedora and Ubuntu, so our builds won't boot on it at all. Since you can create ARM binaries on an x86 machine with a cross compiler, or on the 1.75 itself, the only use case I can think of for it relating to 1.75 development would have been running our builds. - Chris. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org http://printf.net/ One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
