[Arm-netbook] Selecting the right Soc for out ARM Notebook project.

[Gordan Bobic]

On 06/05/2012 02:21, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Bari Ari (bari at onelabs.com) wrote:
>> How about the ARMADA XP  MV78460  quad core 1.6GHz CPU with PCIe or the
>> dual or single core version?
>
> Are there any boards about with these guys on?
>
>> Volari or AMD GPU could be attached over PCIe
>>
>> Whats the story on Linux support? I've lost track of Marvell after they
>> declined to trade money for the Armada 1500's.
>> http://www.marvell.com/digital-entertainment/armada-1500/
>
> I thought that the support was poor from what I'd previously heard, but
> then I found these:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/linux-armadaxp
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Server/Install

Solidrun's CuBox has an Armada in it, and I'm pretty sure that Armada 
support has been in the mainline kernel for a while. I thought it had a 
built in GPU for which drivers were closed-source only, though.

Gordan