Linaro Launches an Open-Source Spec For ARM SBCs

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 9, 2015 @08:41PM from the helping-you-make-new-toys dept.

DeviceGuru writes: Not content to just standardize ARM-based Linux and Android software, Linaro has just launched 96Boards, an open-source spec for ARM-based single board computers. Along with the spec's rollout, Linaro also announced a $129 HiKey SBC based on a HiSilicon 64-bit, octa-core Kirin 620 SoC, and compatible with the 96Boards Consumer Edition (CE) spec's 85 x 54mm 'standard' form factor option. The 96Boards initiative plans to offer a series of specs for small-footprint 32- and 64-bit Cortex-A boards, including an Enterprise Edition (EE) of its spec in Q2.

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Re:Does this give us anything Raspberry Pi didn't by gweihir · 2015-02-10 02:01 · Score: 1, Funny

An actually sane design, non-faked USB, for starters. The people that designed the RPi, including the model B+, are incompetent hacks. Yes, I have both a B and a B+, but that is it. I am not financing them learning EE 101 any further.

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