I believe that the FPGA is partially used to provide the HDMI output, and the remainder of the cells are open for customized use. The Epiphany processor is usable via several standards, such as OpenMPI. My own goal with this board (aside from the challenge of getting a different OS to boot on it) is to do computer vision with Python. Of course, most laptops would be faster at this. However, having the power of approximately one core of an i7 whilst only drawing a few watts makes for some very interesting applications. :)
Now how easy the tools will be to build on RSEL remains to be seen. I've not yet compared the glib and gcc versions between RSEL and the version of Linaro that Adapteva has built specifically for this purpose. On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/07/15 00:32, Joshua Kramer wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I've booted RSEL successfully on this board: >> >> http://www.parallella.org/ >> >> HDMI works and it boots, but that's about it. USB keyboard and mouse >> do not work for some reason, so I'm off to solve that issue. > > > That looks quite cool. How can the 16 secondary cores be used? Are they just > for FPGA stuff? > > Gordan > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
