On Thu 26/05/11 17:14 , Wookey wrote: > Not if you do native development, which is what Debian and Ubuntu > push you towards and it's more and more practical as the arm hardware > gets better. The ARM hardware gets better and better, but stuff like storage continues to be (comparatively) grim. If you think that compiling from an SD card is fun, I dunno... We have no ATA or SATA buses on this beast - if you want serious storage, it's USB, or slum it with NAND or SD. > Wrong. I always care about power. And so should everyone. So stop using big HDMI displays, when you could just X in and open a window on your desktop machine. While I do care about power, if the product becomes unsaleable because of a power compromise too far, we've lost, not won. > This is the real question. Is it worth the pins? I don't have an > answer to that. So long as we are happy with the answer 'go buy a > beagle if you wanted to plug it into a TV' then we don't need it. Or plug an HDMI chip onto the DSS bus connector. I'm not trying to rule it out completely, I just don't want HDMI fitted as the default. Heck, Beagle has _no_ way to deliver HDMI, it simply used an HDMI-shaped socket. We're offering more, not less. We'll have SDTV inherently (costs me a couple of resistors and a connector). > Ethernet and DVI/VGA/HDMI are incredibly convenient for development. Ethernet is provided, Beagle-XM-like, on a USB hub chip. This seems to work fine (although I don't know if the Ethernet comes alive during, or after, boot). You'll get 2 direct Ether ports to the OMAP, and the third will go through the hub, producing Ether 10/100 and 4 more USB ports. If you want more than 6 USB ports, you'll need a (powered) hub. The resources on Challenger will obviously be mission-appropriate. Start campaigning for what you want, I don't care much (yet). (I didn't get any response when I asked if people fancied a couple of the USBs landing on Mini PCI-Express slots, Does anyone have an opinion? (These wee beasties - - handy for wifi, GSM and some other IO channels. > I amdit I don;t understand the difference between LCD and > DVI/VGA/HDMI. Don't they all amount to "a genuine framebuffered, > pixel-painting display"? Yes - an alternative is a USB-connected monitor. Which Nick has working. And it doesn't need 240MBytes/sec - it's a remote framebuffer, and only needs updates. Same as a remote X display, or a VNC framebuffer that doesn't get written out to an actual display. So many alternatives to dragging another monitor onto a crowded desk and finding cables & power for it. > Any display will do, widely available ones with standard connections > are just easy to dev with. Serial terminal for first boot, and after that there are many, many choices, of which HDMI is probably the most crappy. > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM > http://wookware.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Balloon mailing list > http://balloonboard.org/mailman/listinfo/balloon > >