SoC: Back and forth!

[EvilDragon]

I hope Qualcomm says "yes", so you don't have to rely on it.

They don't only have to say yes, they also nees to offer us Linux drivers.

 

[rohezal]

No it won't be pin compatible, the set of peripherals is totally different, the die size and likely packages are probably also totally different. This isn't a mobile SoC, it's for certain other high performance embedded markets. It doesn't even have a GPU or a display controller. http://www.ti.com/li...nk/66ak2h14.pdf

Doesnt matter I just had an orgasm. Floating point dsp.... oh god how cool

 

[fritata]

Will the OMAP 5 in the pyra be attached using a so-dimm port? i can only dream of using one of these in it:

http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a15/var-som-om54-cpu-ti-omap-5-omap5432

 

[comradekingu]

No, because that doest fit, nor fit the bill. A perfect modular solution could be done, but you are throwing out baby and bathwater in equal amounts on the way there. Modular emmc would be nice, being able to populate 8GB ram instead of buying modules is nice too for example.

 

[God Ginrai]

Reposting my post from the SoC poll topic so that people who only follow this SoC topic can see this information:

I think based on the reply I got from Allwinner, it would throw us at least 6 months back, which is way too much.

EvilDragon, I have to say that I'm not really sure how the A80 could set you back 6 months.

I just found this video from CES of an interview with the AllWinner spokesperson that was at CES:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kuCeKjZ7-8Q?feature=oembed

-God Ginrai

 

[ShleeDragon]

Do you want me to repost my reply telling you it's likely going to but a horrible pile of kang'ed source?

 

[Natsu]

At the very least, the 800 development board is out.

http://shop.intrinsyc.com/collections/snapdragon-1

Apparently, that been there, but I didn't see it the first time. Strange.

 

[fanoush]

BTW, IGEP just released their OMAP5 community board http://www.isee.biz/products/igep-processor-boards/igepv5-omap5432-community-edition 

 

[zhasha]

I hope Qualcomm says "yes", so you don't have to rely on it.

They don't only have to say yes, they also nees to offer us Linux drivers.

Did a quick search and it came up negative.

https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris

You might want to have a look at this. I own a Jolla, and it uses libhybris to run the Android 3D drivers under linux. SailfishOS also runs Wayland instead of X11, and I'm very impressed with how well it runs.

 

[God Ginrai]

zhasha, you're still around! (Assuming this is the same zhasha that used to be in #openpandora)

-God Ginrai

 

[zhasha]

I had no idea I was famous. What did I do?

 

[God Ginrai]

I had no idea I was famous. What did I do?

Nah, I just remember our conversations about the PND system and a possible replacement. Which btw, if you are still interested in that, they're having discussions about it over in the Pyra OS forum.

-God Ginrai

 

[zhasha]

I am so not the right person for that. It's very likely that upon buying the Pyra I will port and install SailfishOS on it and, depending on the status of the closed Jolla packages, modify their desktop or roll my own; then proceed to write QML frontends for all my emulators and never speak of application packages again.

But I do still support the idea of one application = one file. I just don't think it's reasonably doable on the current linux ecosystem anymore.

 

[Neelix]

If you have a talent for QML interfaces, perhaps you could help create a QML minimenu replacement?    (for use with panorama)

- Neelix

 

[Natsu]

Have you contacted Allwinner for clarification?
I know you said these things take time, but are you sure you don't need to recontacted Qualcomm? :lol:

 

[rohezal]

Talked to a phd student who walked at IBM with friends in the Qualcom R&D department. He gave me some advice how to get faster answers from big companies . Writing a PM to ED.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Heh, Linus Travold showed us how

 

[ekianjo]

Heh, Linus Travold showed us how

travold?

 

[Null]

Heh, Linus Travold showed us how

travold?

 

[comradekingu]

Why are we not looking at the MediaTek MT6592, its paired with a Mali-450 MP GPU

MediaTek has bought ralink, and they have metal everywhere. I dont know if they used that to integrate junk, but we can always do our own modem anyway.

Wifi is hard enough as it is.

http://versus.com/en/mediatek-mt6592-vs-mediatek-mt6595

http://linuxgizmos.com/mediatek-adopts-new-arm-cortex-a17/  This is a forecast on the MT6592 all other sources have it listed with powervr unfortunately. But that makes the choice easier