First A15 Dev Board at 249$ "Arndale Board"

…seems to be the first affordable and available Dev Board for the A15…

Arndale Board

…hoping for an Risc OS Port ;-)…let’s see if Samsung keeps the promise for public opening of the necessary documentation. According to the Chrombook (same spec) performance measurements this board easily doubles or triples the speed of the Pandaboard…

Update: Hey ho…lot’s of documentation on their website…even an 881 pages public Samsung 5250 documentation…let’s see…at 881 pages there should be something usefull ;-)

…hoping for an Risc OS Port ;-)…let’s see if Samsung keeps the promise for public opening of the necessary documentation.

Total shock, what would RO users do with all those features?

According to the Chrombook (same spec) performance measurements this board easily doubles or triples the speed of the Pandaboard…

Now if the Chromebook has essentially the same spec then it makes the Chromebook a possible RO laptop. In conjunction with the surprise of the Arndale board the average RO user would be in an institution. (Most of us probably should be anyway)

Had a quick skim through the manual (on the train to the show)… looks promising. There’s no details of the GPU, for example, but there’s enough info to use a framebuffer. It doesn’t describe SATA, USB or SD, which might be awkward.

There’s no details of the GPU, for example, but there’s enough info to use a framebuffer.

Enough info to use a framebuffer, yes, but not enough info to tell you how to get that framebuffer displayed on a monitor! The display controller outputs its signal to several internal modules (e.g. the HDMI controller), none of which are documented.

It doesn’t describe SATA, USB or SD, which might be awkward.

They’re presumably all standard parts, so examination of the Linux sources should reveal where & what they are. The only tricky bit would be if SoC-specific tweaks have been made.

One thing I’ll note (although it won’t help with the whole getting the framebuffer displayed part) is that there is an open source project to make a driver for the Mali GPUs.

http://limadriver.org/