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

[Bari Ari]

On 05/05/2012 08:27 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:

> 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.
>
>

CuBox
800 MHz dual issue ARM 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture> PJ4 processor, VFPv3, 
wmmx SIMD and 512KB L2 cache.
http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox

"The platform is based on Marvell Armada 510 
<http://www.marvell.com/application-processors/armada-500/> SoC 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip>"
http://www.marvell.com/application-processors/armada-500/

This the same ARM SOC used in the OLPC XO-1.75
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-1.75

So there is Linux support, but Marvell did back off from their original 
promise of having open GPU drivers or libs:
http://build.laptop.org/11.3.1/

-Bari