On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
wrote:
question (for everyone): if there existed a board which used a
single-core 800mhz Cortex A9, maximum hard limit of 512mb RAM, but
also had SATA-II and 10/100 Ethernet, would it be of interest, and
how
much would you pay for it? similar spec / design / size /
interfaces
as the pandaboard, origen etc. just with a single-core Cortex A9
rather than dual-core.
All that effort just to get native SATA? I really don't think it's
worth it.
it's fitting in with some existing plans that are already underway.
so there's a window of opportunity for free software developers to
take advantage of, that will likely be closed within a few weeks as
they finalise and proceed with their plans.
If you really need SATA, then there is this:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.aspx
512mb RAM (DDR2 800mhz mind you), 1.2ghz Marvell Kirkwood (not
Cortex
A9, which was david's question - kirkwoods are pretty damn good
though, having an ARM "compatible" instruction set and had
superscalar
out-of-order execution well before Cortex A9s ever had it).
eSATA-II, 3gb/sec and _two_ gigabit ethernets, no less.
whoopee-doo.
ahh, are these the little boxes that massively overheat if you start
using them for anything beyond a toy, by chance? :)
so, there you go, david - get one of those and a fire extinguisher
:)