[Arm-netbook] qualcom snapdragon 410

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:20 PM, GaCuest <gacuest at gmail.com> wrote:
> En 27 de noviembre de 2015 en 17:43:27, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl at lkcl.net) escrito:
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:54 AM, GaCuest wrote:
>>
>> > I have some doubts:
>> > - EOMA-68 has enough power for the Snapdragon 410?
>>
>> A53 goes power-hungry at 1ghz (big voltage jump). at 900mhz or
>> below, it's fine. A53 is 15% more power-performance-hungry that the
>> A7.
>>
>> > - Do you have support/drivers of the GPU in Linux (like OpenGL ES 3.0)?
>>
>> yes.
>>
>> > In my opinion, there should be a EOMA-68 with a more basic and cheap
>> > hardware (Allwinner series) and other EOMA-68 with a more powerful and
>> > expensive hardware (Snapdragon series).
>>
>> agreed. it's also FSF-Endorseable, which is awesome.
>>
>> l.
>>
>
> I know that A53 is power-hungry. My question is if Adreno 306 consumes more
> or less than Mali400 MP2.

 don't know.

> Adreno seems to have better support than Mali, so it seems a better choice.
> Freedreno also supports other Adreno GPU?

 afaik.

> RAM?

 lots.

> It will be interesting to see this new EOMA-68.

 http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/HOT-NEW-IC-MSM8916-5VV-MSM8916-8916-5VV-8916-QUALCOM-BGA/1394673_32342302837.html

 well, it's made it out of the restricted distribution chain and into
the mainstream bazaar.

 haha, there's even templates for BGA stencilling available so people
can replace the IC:
 http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20151128063810&SearchText=MSM8916+IC

l.