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A comment on Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board.

Re:Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board by andreiw on Thursday November 12, 2015 @03:15PM (#10555782)
Dunno, depending on what you're doing the Shield TV costs less and does about the same. People are running Ubuntu on these today, and you get the video, XHCI USB, GigE ethernet and WiFi working fine. Of course having a more "normal" platform is nice, but does a UART really cost 300 dollars more? (The ShieldTV has no physical serial port, at least not one I found anywhere).

Also see https://github.com/andreiw/shieldTV_demo

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Re:Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board by jpierre on Thursday November 12, 2015 @06:48PM (#10557039)
Yep, I'm hoping that NVIDIA's Linux For Tegra[1] 23.1 release is installable on the Shield TV since it'll be adding AArch64 support for the TX1.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra

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Re:Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board by andreiw on Thursday November 12, 2015 @03:35PM (#10555911)
nVidia...are you listening? Uncripple your firmware so booting custom images is not a song-and-dance (you broke it in 1.4!) and at least TELL us where the UART pads are on the motherboard. If you're really cool put together an "official" Ubuntu image that runs on the TX1 and the Shield.
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