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Re: Good ARM board for Debian?



On 9/27/2013 8:00 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:
On 9/26/2013 5:51 PM, Alexander Danilov wrote:

On 27.09.2013 01:13, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Hi again, all,

Well, it looks like for several reasons the RaspberryPi won't work for
this project.  Can anyone
recommend other ARM-based boards which run Wheezy well?

This is going to be a used as a monitor/controller, so major speed
isn't a factor.  It will mainly
be using SPI and GPIO ports, plus ethernet for communications.  Other
things like graphics, USB
ports, etc. are not important for this project (but their presence
doesn't rule the board out).

Also the ability to run their ARM version of Wheezy under QEMU is
important for development.

I appreciate any recommendations.

TIA
Jerry



There are olinuxino boards. I start use olinuxino a20. It has usb,
ethernet, gpio ports. I use it with they own lcd 10'' for GUI
application to control hardware in Debian/Testing. I don't know about
qemu version.



Alexander,

Thanks - this one looks very promising.  I like the fact it is completely
open source,

  it's not.  they still have not resolved the GPL violations of the
boot0/boot1 bootloader (although the source code of _one_ version of
the early boot0/boot1 code is available, it's not what they've
distributed), nor have they provided the full source code of the exact
configuration that was loaded onto the boards that they've sold
(although they've pointed at *someone else's* source code, they
haven't answered the question).

l.



Thanks for the info. I'll check into the bootloader problem. As for the source code they have loaded, I'm not real concerned about that. We'll be loading our Debian compilation on them.

Jerry


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