moin
2013/12/11 Axel Theilmann <[email protected]> > > > moin, > > > The only SoC with built-in USB3 and reasonable OpenSUSE support that I'm > > aware of is the Exynos5. You could try and see whether the Arndale Board or > > the ODROID-XU good for you: > > > > - http://www.arndaleboard.org/ > > - http://www.hardkernel.com/ > > if you're talking about the pre-built jeos images, the beagleboard should be > supported quite well as well. although its also not really cheap, but its > easier to order than the odroid or even the arndale. > > https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:BeagleBoard-xM > > but the beaglebone is a bit dated (and hence well supported). the odroid-xu > and the arndale are _much_ faster. but especially the odroid-xu is pretty > bleeding edge (and it seems the specific SoC on the odroid-xu (exynos 5410) > has a silicon bug, and theres already an odroid-xu2 announced which will be > released soon.) > > if the jeos-beagle image works on a "beaglebone black" as well, that would > probably be option with the best bang per buck ration. it costs about the > same as as raspi, but is a lot more powerful. > > http://www.exp-tech.de/Mainboards/BeagleBone-Black.html > > > i can try if the jeos-beagle image works on there. > > > Maybe the new CubieBoard has everything you need too, but I don't have any > > experience with those: > > > > - http://cubieboard.org/2013/10/30/cubieboard3-cubietruck-is-all-ready/ > > the cubietruck is a nice board, but not very well supported yet (at all) > since its pretty new. > > they're pretty affordable, but the allwinner SoC that all the cubie boards > are based on needs a special kernel (linux-sunxi, based on linux 3.4). some > initial support for allwinner is in 3.12 mainline linux, but not much works > yet (no permanent storage, no graphics, no usb...basicaly you can boot to > initrd and thats it..). the gmac is worked in my a20 stb with the lastest linux kernel. there are progresses about usb, sata and mmc in upstream kernel recently. i would expect it will be available soon. considering it support xen/kvm. it is suitable for running a server on ck. BTW, i am working on building opensuse image for it. bamvor > the linux-sunxi kernel works ok, but since it's not > mainline and does not support device tree yet. creating images is not very > elegant. (i'm working with an a20-olinuxino-micro at the moment, also based > on the allwinner A20 soc). > > if you don't need all the interfaces the cubietruck has, the cubieboard 2 or > the a20-olinuxino-micro are cheaper choices. > > > in all, the allwinner boards are cheap, work in general, but are a bit of a > hassle to get to work with opensuse/JeoOS. > > > i'll test the jeos-beagle image on the beaglebone black and get back to you.. > > > > oh, and whatever you do, stay away from rk8133 boards..they're horrible ;) > > > tty, axel > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
