On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:48:33PM +0000, peter green wrote: > >> >>What else has equivalent or better RAM & CPU? >There isn't a lot of arm stuff out there with 1 gigabyte of ram :/ >>I thought the MX53 would be a safe bet because it looks like they >>are used in the Efika and as Debian build machines. >According to sledge I.mx 53 quickstart boards have been rock solid in >their role as debian autobuilders/porterboxes. Of course an >autobuilder/porterbox only needs storage and network.
They're fine for us. I started using the Freescale 2.6.35 kernel, then moved over to mainline with 3.2.0. Networking and SATA work fine there, but USB is still not quite there yet... >>The Beagle XM only has 512M and I keep on reading about the Panda >>overheating and I live in a hot climate. >According to sledge the Panda (with USB storage) also has issues with >locking up under high network and storage load, probablly because both >network and storage have to run off USB. This makes it a poor choice for >an autobuilder. Yup. the Panda network and disk are attached via USB and not that fast or reliable... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
