2011-12-15, 17:18
CuBox by Solid-Run could be a great ARM and OpenGL ES development platform for XBMC on Linux?
http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/SolidRun-CuBox/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEoMYEJls4
it is relatively inexpensive at €99 and you do not need to buy any additional hardware for it
They say to already have XBMC for Ubuntu Linux running on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEoMYEJls4
http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5
http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4
Marvell Armada 510 / PXA510 SoC it uses seams little special
http://www.marvell.com/application-proce.../index.jsp
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/...-and-1000/
http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/SolidRun-CuBox/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEoMYEJls4
it is relatively inexpensive at €99 and you do not need to buy any additional hardware for it
They say to already have XBMC for Ubuntu Linux running on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twEoMYEJls4
http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5
http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4
Quote:Typically a distro that supports ARMv7 and VFPv3-d16 instruction sets would be best, in order to get best performance.
Best if using hardvfp, but currently we haven't ported any (Debian probably will be first).
Marvell Armada 510 / PXA510 SoC it uses seams little special
http://www.marvell.com/application-proce.../index.jsp
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/...-and-1000/
Quote:Because Marvell is not only an ARM processor licensee, but also an architecture licensee, it has the right to take ARM-designed cores and use it in SoCs of its own devising. This is precisely what the chipmaker has done with its newly announced Armada products, creating its own, unique Sheeva designs.
Marvell's Sheeva PJ1 architecture -- used in the new, single-core Armada 100 family and dual-core Armada 1000 family -- is based on the ARMv5 instruction set. The company's Sheeva PJ4 architecture -- used in the Armada 500 and 600 families -- is based on the ARMv7 instruction set, previously employed by processors including those using ARM's Cortex-A8 core.
Instead of employing ARM's Neon SIMD (single instruction multiple data) instruction set, the Armada products incorporate Wireless MMX2 technology, inherited from Intel when Marvell acquired the latter's XScale-based SoCs in 2006. The Armada SoCs additionally include Marvell's Qdeo video processing technologies, and the processors can also accelerate Adobe's Flash technology, the company says.