Re: Good ARM board for Debian?

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 9/26/2013 6:23 PM, peter green wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>  >Well, it looks like for several reasons the RaspberryPi won't work for
> this project.
> Knowing what those reasons are would help us to steer you towards a
> board that is suitable for your needs.
> > Also the ability to run their ARM version of Wheezy under QEMU is
> > important for development.
> While you can run debian wheezy under QEMU the emulated hardware is
> highly unlikely to match what you are actually developing for. So
> anything involving GPIO, graphics etc will almost certainly have to be
> developed/tested on the real hardwhere whichever board you use.

Peter,

Yes, I am well aware of that.  However, we can still develop and compile 
the applications under QEMU on a much faster system (even with QEMU's 
overhead).  We also don't have to worry about bricking the system and 
having to recover; it's a pretty simple matter to mount a QEMU disk on 
native Debian and making changes to the load sequence.

And for hardware which isn't emulated, a simple module can feed fake 
data to the applications for testing.

P.S. No need to CC: me.  I'm subscribed to the list (and monitor it on 
Usenet).

Jerry