RTC on Pandaboard

Not a dry joint, a bit more embarrassing than that: no crystal had been fitted by our assemblers:-/
When manufacturing large batches Q & A must be well organised. On smaller batches it more likely for mistakes to occur. I think we’ve had one failure from a batch of 1080 Pi RTCs and now one from 50 Panda RTCs.

“… a batch of 1080 Pi RTCs and now one from 50 Panda RTCs.”
Is that a pointer to the relative rate of sale ;-)?

Might be for RTC modules on their own.
But comparing PandaRO and RaspberryRO systems I think the PandaRO has the edge.

But comparing PandaRO and RaspberryRO systems I think the PandaRO has the edge.

Mmm… Twice the memory, twice the cores, possibly twice the speed, twice the video…

Naaaah, it’s the same really, innit? ;-)

Oh for an ArndaleRO…….

Oh for an ArndaleRO…….

Cheap rate or the Octa? If you’re dreaming go big(ger)

But comparing PandaRO and RaspberryRO systems I think the PandaRO has the edge.

Sorry I thought it was clear that I was talking about the volume of sales not their specs. With the exception of monitors supported¹ the PandaRO wins hands down on specs.

A final thought on my RTC board (a CJE Micro’s one) problem, now resolved, is that it would have helped to have been told about, and offered, the version of OMAP4 that supported the RTC over a year ago when it was first produced (see Chris Evans’ last 2 posts of 7/3/14 in this thread). I would have discovered and had corrected the hardware fault on the board a year ago and had a working RTC from then.

Dave: As a commercial body we can’t distribute ROM builds without paying a licence fee. When you purchased the module, RTC support existed in builds by Willi and it was expected to be added to the ROOL builds within a few weeks, we had no control over the delay. IIRC you mentioned at the time getting a Panda Build from Keith Dunlop which I knew had RTC support in it. Unfortunately I was never aware that you were using a build without RTC support.

@Chris
OK, now it’s my turn to be a bit embarrassed. Yes, I did have an OMAP4 version that supported the RTC and so I will go away and ‘eat my hat’. Either I had forgotten that it was supposed to support the RTC, (over a year ago remember) or, more likely, since the RTC didn’t work for me, I assumed that the version didn’t support the RTC rather than a hardware fault. I happen to still have the SD card with the OMAP4 version that I was using around the time of buying the RTC board and I have just confirmed that it does indeed support the RTC. So, sorry for the confusion over this; but, in mitigation, there was a lot of talk about RTC support being ‘broken’ on various versions of OMAP4 throughout most of 2013 until it was finally fixed in the ‘official’ version on this website last November.