[Arm-netbook] A10 server dreamboard

[Tom Cubie]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:

> On 30/05/12 09:13, Peter Steenbergen wrote:
> > There are better ARM SoC's out there to be used as server option, but
> > where the Allwinner might come in very handy is when the video chip
> > encoding is working.
>
> this thread was triggered by a conversation about inexpensive iMX6
> quad-core blades. A10 was only suggested for mini
> (embedded/industrial/home) servers but it seems the message got lost in
> translation.
>
> the documentation and sample code for encoding using the cedarx
> libraries in available. we have .a files for android and armel ubuntu...
> maybe Tom can get us armhf ones?
>
> Maybe, i will have them compiling with the armhf gcc.

> *my* idea for the olinuxino A10 *mini* server board was/is 1 type B USB
> for gadget (including console) on the OTG, 2 normal USB2.0 hosts,
> ethernet, 1GB of RAM, small nand, full SD, ttl serial console on pins,
> esata and an expansion header for everything else. mountable on 4
> standoffs.
>
> >
> > We can then end up in a very powerfull low energy transcoding machine to
> > h.264. I imagine the chip can do one concurrent stream at the time, but
> > then combining multiple boards into one machine gives the answer.
> >
> > Those transcoding machine are ussually very expensive and consume a shit
> > load of energy. Their might be a nice nich market in that area for the
> > Allwinner SoC
>
> sounds nice :)
>
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