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Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by seba_dos1 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:28PM (#18720985)
I'd guess that power consumption characteristics of those two i.MX8 variants are different enough to explain that choice.
Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by floatboth on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:52AM (#18725912)
Well, the mainstream phones have much more powerful processors than Cortex-A53, they just power manage them well…
Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by seba_dos1 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:25PM (#18729270)
I wouldn't expect a SoC that's not even targeted for mobiles to "power manage them well". Mainstream phones are completely irrelevant there.