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

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Gordan Bobic (gordan at bobich.net) wrote:
> 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.

Oh, that's a neat little box.

I'm not sure the Armada is the same animal as the Armada XP; although
the one that the CuBox is using has ARMv7, GigE, SATA and PCI-e on chip;
the XPs seem to have more of each of those.

Dave
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