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Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board
siliconbits writes "You may recall a little group of Linux-loving chums called Linaro, which was formed almost a year ago in the hopes of speeding up Linux development. Today at Computex, the company's taking it one step further with the announcement of the Origen development board. Based on Samsung's beefy Exynos 4210 dual core chipset, the kit packs all the essential ports — including HDMI, USB 2.0 host, SD slot, etc. — for keen developers to get their hands dirty on, and its base board is also removable to accommodate future chipsets. Potential buyers are told to keep an eye on Insignal, which will soon be offering the basic Origen package for $199, along with optional parts at an extra cost."
A little context would go a long way towards explaining what the hell the summary is babbling about.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
The problem with development boards is that there are gazillions of them out there, and almost all of them exist to try and sell you various bits of silicon. A development board is normally only interesting when you want to try and make something with it.
The specs for this board are similar to the specs for the PandaBoard, which is less than $200. Linaro also works on the PandaBoard. Is this just a new development board based on Samsung's SOC that happens to support Linaro?
so I saw this big fat heifer-sow of a woman at the grocery store. this one was easily in the 300-350lb range and i was surpirsed to see she could waddle on her own without the assistance of a wheeled electric fat-cart. i also was really very shocked and amazed to observe that she was raiding the donuts. no mere half-dozen or full dozen box is enough for her. oh, no. she had to nab the biggest box the place sold, the two-dozen box.
but you see, there was a problem. she simply could not hold out. it would be a whole 10-15 minutes before she could complete her shopping and check-out. though i am certain she struggled mightily to control herself, alas, it was far too long to wait. the craving and the temptation became far too much for her puny willpower. she was overcome and she knew it. still standing in the bakery/pastry area of the store, she could not help her self. she cracked open the box right then and there and started eating the fat-sugar-and-grease filled donuts. i think it was an empty box she brought to the check-out.
but oh how it was worth it. though she said nothing you could see how her heart sang. like the lover to his long-lost beloved, or the heroin addict to the needle and spoon, or the crackhead to that white rock, she was propelled by what she most cared about. of course she was a bit self-conscious. you could almost see it written on her face, thoughts like "they're going to think this is why I am so grotesquely fat" and "my decision making obviously could never have anything to do with my disgusting self-hating bloated fatbody obesity, i am not responsible, could not be responsible, it must be my big bones because bone always looks exactly like flabby jiggling rolls of fat".
listen up and learn well. hear the words of wisdom. even though it is proven absolutely by empirical observation, basic physics and mathematics, and the like, that you CANNOT POSSIBLY gain weight if you eat fewer calories than you burn... well despite all of these fancy "facts" and all of that bullshit book-learnin', obscenely fat heifers like her have no responsibility for their condition. it is always someone or something else's fault. true they could eat less or exercise more, or preferably both, but who has time for that? i mean damn, YOU try spending 10 hours of your waking day eating yourself into an early grave and then see how much time is left over for things like eating less or exercising more. quit being so damned insensitive.
so the next time you see a big fat sweaty sow of a woman whose rolls of fat on her shoulder blades look like a distorted, backward-facing second pair of breasts, you need to give her a mercy fuck. do it to take one for the team. do it to prove how much of a non-bigot you are. do it so you can finally expose the LIE that people who take responsibility for their lives gain the ability to improve themselves. we sure as hell can't have people believing in that.
just be sure to have on hand a 10 pound bag of flour. better make that two, just in case. you might need it for that mercy fuck. you see, there is so much more to love that you might have difficulty locating the vaginal opening. that's where the flour kicks in and saves the day, or the night. you simply roll her around in it and look for the wet spot. that, good sir, is your target. you will thank me in the morning, but fear not -- from the kindness of my heart i give this wisdom freely.
Once they get the ARM port finalized this would be one awesome little XBMC device. Full 1080p support. 1.2 gHz should be plenty fast for the non HD encoded stuff (old .avi DIVX movies).
...with kernel 3.0.0 inside! OMG Poniez!!!
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
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Good luck on your crusade.
Light a fire for a man, he has warmth for a day; light a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.
This would be worth so much more if the board's chipsets supported freely licensed drivers. As it stands only proprietary drivers are available for most of the hardware which may or may not work with the kernel version/variant you want to use.
$199? are they kidding? I can get the Intel Atom board for $79 and it comes with USB, ethernet, VGA, SATA already at dual core
Software are dirt cheap to free
If I have to click the link in the summary, then can you explain what the hell the point of the summary is?
Why not just post a bunch of links with no text?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
This seems to be a slightly more limited, slightly less expensive version of the Panda Board. I wonder how Samsung's cortex A9 compares to TI's omap version...
My first question would be about the power that board is consuming ddr3 support (800+ MT/s). Keep in mind that transistors sink the most amount of current (i.e. consume power) when they are in the process of switching from '0' to '1' and vice versa. So if The bus speed has just increased by at least a factor of 4, then power consumption might have increased proportionally. A think a performance-per-watt graph comparing the Exynos chip and a dual core atom is in order (ahem.... tom's ... cough... hardware... sniff).
My next question would be, "where are the Mali GPU drivers?" A free as in speech implementation of all patent unencumbered interfaces of this GPU would be brilliant. Can't wait to talk to the Linaro devs ;-)
I've bought about 5 different ARM-based development boards over the past 2 years.
One big issue is ARM CPUs have a security feature called TrustZone which can run an OS with privileged code, but still restrict some hardware to only "secure" software (basically, a hypervisor above the OS). Unfortunately, for example, TI in its OMAP platforms has decided to force Linux to run non-secure always in the cheap development platforms. This is a problem for me since I want to be able to change those registers, and in some cases ARM CPUs have a variety of bugs which require setting workaround bits in CPU registers which cannot be changed by non-secure code. And of course those bits aren't set.
This problem affects the PandaBoard, Beagleboard, and a Zoom board I got from LogicPD with an OMAP chip. All use TI OMAP chips, all boot Linux in non-secure mode. I've been happy with a board I got from Freescale, the MX.51, which lets me run secure code just fine. Unfortunately, Freescale development boards are around $1000, and these TI-based boards are around $200.
So, does anyone know how Samsung is going to handle TrustZone--will Linux be able to run in secure mode?
I'd like to know why there is no $100 ARM netop out there if boards are that cheap.
A basic ARM11 board with plastic case shouldn't cost more than $25 to manufacture so thre is a huge space for profits.
would you want a board to develop an early Christian writer?
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if samsung sponsored this project and agreed to base its future offerings on similar chipsets, we might see fully FOSS phones capable of running not just android but meego, ubuntu et alia.
Kinda like the symbian foundation was aiming for with wild ducks on beagleboard before nokia pulled the plug.
Depending on power consumption you could add a touch screen and battery to this and have a very fast smartphone/PDA type thing.
I care not for your karma and your mod points.
http://www.linaro.org/low-cost-development-boards