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 Halo1 · 2015-02-09 22:22 · Score: 4, Interesting

This is the first low-cost aarch64 silicon on the market. There are piles of piles of developers that will get it just for porting their software for arm64
This. Just logged in because I wanted to say exactly the same. Until now, afaik the cheapest option was actually a jailbroken iPad Mini 2 (and you obviously can't run Linux on that).

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