Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Maker Faire

Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by narrowrail on Saturday September 26, 2015 @01:51PM (#10283792)

Thanks for the run-down, esp. the mention of the CPU fan, as I had noticed it in one of the photos. I'd be interested in reducing clock speed in the hope that I could get rid of all the fans (maybe use a heatsink?). The available RAM and lack of GPU are major benefits, and I hope we see more products with those features. Cavium seem like they could offer something similar, but I don't think their sales model fits with widespread availability of dev kits.

Edit: Their site and sales sheet have a discrepancy about power supply. Does the dev kit come with one, and what are the specs? Thanks again!

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Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by rwmj on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:05PM (#10284084)

There's a photo of mine on this page (on the left): https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/raise-the-itanic/

The machine is physically a standard 19" 1U rack case, half depth (or less?). It comes with an 80W PSU and a single SATA HDD. I fitted mine with a second SDD (I believe there are 4 SATA ports on the motherboard, but not enough room in the case for 4 hard drives).

The motherboard inside is pretty tiny, about 7"x7".

Red Hat have some Caviums and Seattles as well, but I've not used those.

Edit: I forgot an important point: The upstream kernel works out of the box. (For x86 users, this will sound like a strange thing to point out, but it's BIG news in the ARM world).

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