[Arm-dev] ARM Development Hardware

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/17/2015 09:46 AM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
> >Hello everybody,
> >I was hoping to get some suggestions from you guys about which ARM
> >development hardware to purchase.
> >
> >The hardware will have just one purpose; compiling and testing CentOS.
> >With this in mind I'm leaning towards something Quad Core, good amount
> >of RAM,NAND Flash, SATA and that has a heatsink . Does SATA seem
> >reasonable or will a USB HDD serve just as well?
> >
> >I live in Mumbai, India. So, I might not have all the options you guys
> >have. I might be able to get Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard, Cubie Board,
> >Radxa, Banana Pi or Odroid from these guys https://www.crazypi.com/ or
> >http://www.greenindiaelectronics.com/
> >
> >If anyone from India is reading this, please do suggest reliable sellers.
> 
> I have Cubieboards for testing once there are builds for me to work with.  I
> am quite happy with them, but the A20 is only a duo core. The Cubieboard 4
> is a octo core, but they left off the sata and only a single otg usb.

  it's not symetric octo too, it's big/little so only 4 powerful cores IIRC

> Then there is the Wandboards.  Pricey compared to Cubies, but there is a
> nice quad core with sata.  A friend of mine is running his audio streaming
> server on one with F21.

Daniel

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