On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org> wrote:
The Sabre Lite board would be a little over budget for me at present, alas, and there is the 4-6 week lead time, although as an old server admin it has a very high degree of appeal. Has anybody had any success with a Pandaboard ES? (apologies for not scouring the lists before asking). I also have visions of a possible NAS > IIRC it was something like ?300 each here in UK. But they will only sell > you one if you first buy an "evaluation kit" for ?600 or so. I got the > evaluation kit (which is little more than a serial cable and a year's > support contract) because I didn't really have much choice, so if you > decide you want one send me an email off-list, I should be able to proxy it > for you and save you the evaluation kit fees. > Thanks for the very kind offer, but my budget is, er, "somewhat less" > > I'm planning to try one of these boards in my next NAS (a backup for the > backup, and for hacking on and testing of the ZoL (ZFS on Linux) on ARM. I have messed with ZFS on FreeBSD in the past. Is brtfs a possibility? (er, sorry to stray so far off topic) > > > That is a _sweet_ board! I wasn't aware of it. Thank you for pointing it > out. :) Quad core A9 sounds quite awesome. In fact, at $300, that is as > good value as a Toshiba AC100 both per core and per MB of RAM. I'll have to > look into it - might just be a tidier solution for my RedSleeve package > build farm. :) > I am seriously tempted to just go ahead and shell out the $$$ for it. Seriously. Really. > > Unfortunately, the Compulab one is even more expensive (but it is uATX if > that's important to you). IIRC, Marvell do a dev kit board with PCIe slots, > SATA and suchlike, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was > called. And IIRC it is only available as part of a dev kit that costs > thousands of ?. > > Gordan > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org >> <mailto:gordan at redsleeve.org>> wrote: >> >> I recently got a new ARM machine: >> >> http://compulab.co.il/__**products/sbcs/sbc-a510/<http://compulab.co.il/__products/sbcs/sbc-a510/> >> >> >> <http://compulab.co.il/**products/sbcs/sbc-a510/<http://compulab.co.il/products/sbcs/sbc-a510/> >> > >> >> This appears to have the same SoC as the Solidrun CuBox (which is, >> incidentally, far better value, if you don't absolutely need the ATX >> form factor, and a PCI/mini-PCIe slot). >> >> The reason why I am even mentioning this is because the kernel that >> ships with the SBC-A510 is 2.6.32.9. That means that the support for >> this SoC is either in the mainline kernel at that age, or it should >> be realatively easy to generate the patch against 2.6.32 and port it >> to the upstream distro kernel. >> >> What this means is that it is another SoC that can be supported by >> the "official" kernels - in case anyone actually cares about this. >> >> In the near future, I'm going to be updating (to 2.6.32-220.17.1) >> and expanding (+armada) the range of official kernels, and hopefully >> also adding generation of a uimage package (uboot tools' mkimage >> seems to produce an unusable uimage when working from vmlinuz, but >> works fine when starting with zImage produced during the kernel >> build) to make users' lives a little easier when getting things to >> work. >> >> Gordan >> ______________________________**___________________ >> users mailing list >> users at lists.redsleeve.org <mailto:users at lists.redsleeve.**org<users >> at lists.redsleeve.org> >> > >> >> http://lists.redsleeve.org/__**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/__mailman/listinfo/users> >> >> >> <http://lists.redsleeve.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >> > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> >> Ian M Perkins >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> users mailing list >> users at lists.redsleeve.org >> http://lists.redsleeve.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > users mailing list > users at lists.redsleeve.org > http://lists.redsleeve.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > -- Thanks, Ian M Perkins -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.redsleeve.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20120522/00e146e4/attachment.html>
