Re: Freescale iMX53 Quick Start board

[Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 16:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>> I just have a "developers" model. Here's a link to a couple pictures of the machine I have FWIW;
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiah_foster/6021909246/
> 
> Grrr, no good, I don't want to have a flickr account and to see the pic, you need to be signed in.  Please give us a "normal" public link. Thanks  ;-)

Sure. Here's a link: http://jeremiahfoster.com/trimslice/
Click on the thumbs for a larger pic.

>>> They seem to be very, very cagey about releasing actual information ---
>>> I saw a post by someone at Compulab saying they weren't going to post
>>> scans of the PCB because the layout was confidential! --- but it appears
>>> that the SATA port is actually connected via USB internally and so,
>>> really, doesn't count.
>> That may be the case in fact. Is there something like lspci or similar which would confirm that?
> 
> That is very sad.
> 
> I think we need a good comparison / feature / selection page -- choose the requirements, then see the result:
> 
>   USB 2.0 ports ports yes / no how many [ ]
>   USB 3.0 ports ports yes / no how many [ ]
>   Fast Ethernet ports yes / no how many [ ]
>   Gigabit Ethports    yes / no how many [ ]
>   SATA I
>   SATA II
>   SATA III
>   eSATA
> 
>   and so on .....
> 
> At least this will help research on what board is best for specific requirements.\

Makes sense to me, would be quite useful for a number of projects since the Fedora and Mandriva folks are also looking at creating or updating their ARM ports.

Regards,

Jeremiah