[Arm-dev] ARM Development Hardware

Fri Apr 17 16:03:12 UTC 2015
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 04/17/2015 05:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 04/17/2015 10:38 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 04/17/2015 05:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>> On 04/17/2015 09:51 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>>> On 04/17/2015 04:46 PM, 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/
>>>> I am very happy with the Odroid U3s I have, they are much faster 
>>>> than BB and there is no comparison towards RPi. RPi are cheap but 
>>>> very very very slow. If you are interested just in raw horsepower, 
>>>> Odroid XU3 are a better option, but more expensive
>>>>
>>>>      Manuel
>>>>
>>>> PS: did I mention that RPi are very very very slow ?
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>>> Is this the new RPi 2 which is an armv7 duo core?  No sata though. 
>> I was speaking about the older Pis ( that's what I have around ) but 
>> even the newer RPi is still slow compared to the other boards due to 
>> the lower frequency they operate at.
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> Good to know.  I priced them out compared to the Cubieboard2, and by 
> the time I added things that come 'standard' from my West coast Cubie 
> dealer, they were the same price.

I performed some test in the second half of 2013. They required 
processor power (real time image processing) and results indicated that 
RPi < BBB < Cubie2 < Odroids. The older RPi has issues even displaying a 
decent CSS in firefox. And in order to compile a newer network driver 
for the RPi, after spending 20 mins watching bits flow by in a make 
<whatever that was>, I killed the job on the RPi and did a cross compile 
on the U3. 6 min later the new driver was in place and the RPi was 
happily using it.


Mandar:  Depending on budget, I'd go with either Cubietruck ( 
http://www.cubietruck.com/products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with-wifi-bt-1 
) -- maybe shipped directly from a Chinese supplier (I purchased my 
Cubie2 from eleduino.com but other options exist) or with an Odroid: XU3 
( or XU3 lite) if budget permits or U3 otherwise ( I got my first one 
directly from Hardkernel.com ( S Korea ) as they ship more or less 
worldwide )