Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

peter green dijo [Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43:29PM +0100]: > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU power would be

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On Fri, 20 May 2016 16:03:42 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I'm not sure what sort of processor the RK3288 really is, it appears to > be marketed as a cortex-a17, but linux device-tree lists it as a > cortex-a12. Not familiar enough to know the difference. There is no more

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

Hello, On 05/19/2016 01:43 PM, peter green wrote: > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU power would be nice. > A

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On 2016-05-20, peter green wrote: > On 19/05/16 18:35, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> >> Firefly-4GB: >>price: ~US$260 >>kernel: 4.6.x in experimental (4.4.x worked fine, but 4.5.x broke >> ethernet). >>cpu: quad-core cortex-a12?/a17? (Rockchip rk3288) >>ram: 4GB >>disk: USB2

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

I was going to say, the only downside was the lack of sata.. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 06:51:32PM +0100, peter green wrote: > > On 19/05/16 18:35, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > > > >Firefly-4GB: > > >

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 06:51:32PM +0100, peter green wrote: > On 19/05/16 18:35, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > >Firefly-4GB: > > price: ~US$260 > > kernel: 4.6.x in experimental (4.4.x worked fine, but 4.5.x broke > > ethernet). > > cpu: quad-core cortex-a12?/a17? (Rockchip rk3288) > >

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On 19/05/16 18:35, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: Firefly-4GB: price: ~US$260 kernel: 4.6.x in experimental (4.4.x worked fine, but 4.5.x broke ethernet). cpu: quad-core cortex-a12?/a17? (Rockchip rk3288) ram: 4GB disk: USB2 u-boot: patched u-boot 2016.01 to recognize 4GB of

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 03:53:45PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > It's true, it doesn't come with a fan, and for some cases maybe doesn't > need one, but I picked one up since it's running builds constantly: > > https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/X15FANKIT/X15FANKIT-ND/5822502 > >

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 12:43, peter green wrote: > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU power would be nice. > A

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

+++ Lennart Sorensen [2016-05-19 10:02 -0400]: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:23:03AM -0400, Nigel Sollars wrote: > > The imx.6 4xA9 is about as good as your gunna get for the budget. > > > The hikey is within budget and has 8 A53 cores (so 64bit) but only 1GB > ram, and no SATA and USB2 only. If

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

Analog or pulse-width control of the fan could make it variable speed. On 5/19/16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-05-19, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:35:15AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> BeagleBoard-X15: >>> price: not yet available,

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On 2016-05-19, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:35:15AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> BeagleBoard-X15: >> price: not yet available, estimated ~US$239 >> kernel: 4.6.x, currently needs custom kernel with compiled-in sata >> cpu: dual-core cortex-a15 (TI AM57xx) >>

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On 19/05/16 17:25, Phil Endecott wrote: peter green writes: As much ram as possible. Plenty of CPU power would be nice. A good storage interface (in order of preference SATA is better than USB3 which is better than USB2). Support in Debian kernels would be nice.

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:35:15AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-05-19, peter green wrote: > > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > > As

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On 2016-05-19, peter green wrote: > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU power would be nice. > A good storage

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

peter green p10link.net> writes: > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU power would be nice. > A good storage interface (in order of preference SATA is better than > USB3 which is better than USB2). > Support in Debian kernels would be nice. > arm64 support would be nice. This is what we've

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

> On 19.05.2016, at 13:43, peter green wrote: > > I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. > > Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): > > Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) > As much ram as possible. > Plenty of CPU

Re: affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:23:03AM -0400, Nigel Sollars wrote: > The imx.6 4xA9 is about as good as your gunna get for the budget. Well I did pick up the armdale octa which is 4xA15 (plus 4 not usable A7s) for $200us a year or two ago. It does not have support in the Debian kernel as far as I

affordable arm boards with plenty of ram.

I'm looking for an arm board/box to add to my collection of buildboxes. Critera (in roughly descending order of importance): Reasonablly affordable (upper limit ~£200) As much ram as possible. Plenty of CPU power would be nice. A good storage interface (in order of preference SATA is better