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[Frank]

very interesting.

For Xorg, it's what i fear the most : on old closed-source blob. :-)
but that's another topic.

Thanks.

2009/3/16, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Frank <ultima.ratio.regum69 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I agree with you about the beagleboard but two two others things will
>> be available in a few months.
>> A low-cost netbook (200$) with freescale platform (before this summer
>> it seems and with ubuntu-arm i believe) and a similar thing with
>> qualcomm (don't know when). This two products will be less "geeky"
>> than beagleboard and more usable (or attractive) for the average joe.
>>
>> As you said, the big trouble with ARM is, except instructions set, a
>> lot of things change from one CPU to another : GPU, SIMD, ...
>> It remember me the old days of first PC GPU : an API from each
>> manufacturer. It may be a drawback in a near future as i'm not sure
>> mplayer, xorg, openssl, ... can use these SoC at their full potential.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frank
>
> There's also that Marvel SheevaPlug (1) for $100, although only
> 'armv5' but 1.2Ghz/512Mb which i've pre-ordered and planning to add to
> my current beagle farm.
>
> mplayer - the arm maintainer (ffmpeg) is very active on the
> beagleboard irc/forums.  He is doing his best discovering every
> neon/gcc related bug. (quite a few in gcc 4.3 for armv7-a)
>
> xorg - most arm cores use an old closed source binary blob from powervr...
>
> 1:
> http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Robert Nelson
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