On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:14:49PM +0000, David Pottage wrote: > On 25/12/13 17:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >just something for people's attention, this is a pretty damn good find > >by erix: quad-core 1ghz iMX6, it has 2gb of RAM, SATA, GbE and a full > >MiniPCIe slot (not just USB-only but *full* PCIe because the iMX6 has > >1x PCIe). and plenty more. on the face of it it looks like the $150 > >price tag is high when compared to alternatives but the alternatives > >don't come with SATA, PCIe or 2gb of RAM. > Thanks for the link. (1) > > The price and spec looks quite similar to a Wandaboard quad (2), > which is not supprising considering they have the same Freescale > iMX6 SOC.
The big difference I see is MiniPCIe, which I don't think the wandboard has. The wandboard has a swappable CPU/memory module, so in theory you get get a CPU/RAM upgrade (not sure if the wandboard solo/duallite can be upgraded to the wandboard quad with just the CPU/RAM module). > How good is the mainline linux kernel support for the Freescale iMX6 SOC? I'm running the wandboard quad with 3.12.3-1~exp1 armmp kernel that was from Debian's experiemntal branch. Hoping to test 3.12.6-1 from unstable soon. So far, it's worked fine as a headless server. Works (wandboard quad): - Sata - microSD - Network - audio out (headphone) Doesn't work (wandboard quad): - cpufreq - HDMI video - HDMI audio My hunch is a custom .dts for the Matrix *might* work with the 3.12 armmp kernel in Debian... live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131226173218.ga32...@cascadia.debian.net