I think my response to stuff like this now is: "Show me the KiCAD design files and a board I can get in the mail next week"
So far, my experience with Allwinner is it's great if you like reverse engineering, but if you actually want to ship a product use something that comes with decent documentation and industrial part grades, which is either freescale or TI at this point.
I need an open-hardware design I can use for a tractor/combine auto-guidance system, and it needs to have industrial temp ranges and a 5 year minimum availibility lifetime.
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 06:03:24PM +0100, Paul Boddie wrote:
Hello,
I see that Luke's friends/rivals at Olimex are considering the idea of a laptop based on their "64-bit" development board:
"A64-OLinuXino OSHW 64-bit ARM DIY Laptop idea update"
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/a64-olinuxino-oshw-64-bit-arm-diy- laptop-idea-update/
Their blog post about the board:
"We work on A64-OLinuXino the first Open Source Hardware 64-bit development board"
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/we-work-on-a64-olinuxino-the-first- open-source-hardware-64-bit-development-board/
The baffling thing about this "64-bit ARM" stuff, apart from the apparent lack of vendor cooperation for Linux kernel development...
"One of the problem is that A64 is quite new and no any Linux-Sunxi support, as nobody have seen A64 development boards yet. SO it may pass several months until A64-OLinuXino run anything else than Android 5.1"
...is that the principal benefit of bringing "64-bit" to ARM - addressing more than 2GB RAM - is absent from this design. Indeed, I've only seen one ARM- based board - and not even a "64-bit" one [1] - which had 4GB RAM, let alone more than that. And I imagine that the 4GB RAM is divided between the cores on that Freescale i.MX6 board. (From what I've heard, Freescale is somewhat better than Allwinner with regard to support and documentation, contrary to claims in comments on the Olimex blog.)
Anyway, I thought this was worth a quick perusal.
Paul
[1] http://solid-run.com/freescale-imx6-family/hummingboard/hummingboard- specifications/
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