RISC OS to other ARM boards

Is it possible to use RISC OS on this board?

http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php
it uses a Samsung Exynos4412 Cortex-A9 Quad Core 1.4Ghz with 1MB L2 cache

I’m not into the technical side of things, just curious about the possibilities.

There are a number of previous references to Exynos in the forum threads, but I don’t know about the docs. If you manage to find anything by searching, please let us know!

Personally, I’d be inclined to say to go for the Arndale Board (which has been discussed elsewhere on this forum) instead.

Right now, RISC OS can only use one core, and there’s already a decent Cortex-A9 platform (only dual core, but that doesn’t actually matter right now) available in the PandaBoard ES, and RISC OS is already running on that.

The Arndale Board uses a 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15-based Exynos 5 Dual, and there’s shipping products, including a laptop, using it now. Newer SoC, meaning there’s more time before it’s obsolete, and more power available to RISC OS.

While DMIPS is a mediocre comparison, I’ll use it anyway, because it’s available. The DMIPS total column is just for reference – realize that that will only be achieved with sufficiently parallelized software or heavy enough multicore aware multitasking, which is completely non-existent on RISC OS. So, ignore that column until a truly multiprocessing capable RISC OS is available.

The Arndale Board uses a 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15-based Exynos 5 Dual, and there’s shipping products, including a laptop, using it now.

What he said, plus

http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Arndale Board
CPU Board
Cortex-A15@1.7 GHz dual core subsystem with 64/128 bit SIMD NEON
32KB(instruction)/32KB(DATA)L1 Cache and 1MB l2 Cache
32-bit 800Mhz DDR3/DDR3 1Gbytes x 2
Base Board
Sensor
Accelerator : Invensence MPU-6050
Gyro : Invensence MPU-6050
e-Compass : AKM -AK8963C
ITU 601 camera Interface
HDMI 1.4 interfaces with on-chip PHY
One channel eDP output Single WQXGA
MIPI DSI Standard Specification V1.01r11
MIPI CSI Standard Specification V1.0 Two ports
USB3.0 Host or Device 1-channel that supports SS with on-chip PHY
USB2.0 Host or Device 1-channel that supports LS/FS/HS with on-chip PHY
USB HSIC 2-channel that supports 480Mbps with on-chip PHY
SATA 1.0/2.0/3.0 interface
One channel eMMC 4.5
One channel SDIO 3.0
Two channel SD 2.0
Four channel high-speed UART
(up to 3Mbps data rate for Bluetooth 2.0 EDR and IrDA 1.0SIR)
Three channel high-speed SPI
Three channel 24-bit I2S audio interface
Four channel I2C interface support , up to 400kbps
Four channel HS-I2C up to 3.1Mps

and (I believe):
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/chrome-devices/chrome-devices/XE303C12-H01UK

Of course if no one wants to look at development on a newer Samsung device with USB3 and SATA…

"Full Schematics will be publically released on 31-January-2013" (ODROID-U, Exynos4412, Sold Out, $69.00).

This one might possibly be of interest too – it looks neatly arranged for putting in a once box (unlike my Pi which has a hedgehog-like bristle of connectors that made it tricky) and a decent price. Somebody needs to rescue it from Android, at the very least!

http://www.element14.com/community/community/news/blog/2013/01/21/via-releases-the-apc-rock-and-paper-android-based-single-board-pcs-cardboard-case-in-tow?CMP=SOM-CABE-TECH-APCROCK

Looks like the the latest versions of this board. AFAIK Via are far from good with documenting their chips, managing/releasing their driver source code, etc.