$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB

Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by drivebyacct2 on Thursday December 27, 2012 @09:42PM (#4976168)

There are a gazillion of these. (Most of these are dual, there are a few quad cores mixed in. For XBMC, the dual core is more than powerful enough. The quad core won't fix software rendering, it's up the OEMs to get CedarX working (it's close) or Pivos to push out more amlplayer updates for utilizing the Mali GPU for accelerated playback.) http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=prod...

It's like the AMLogic-M3 f16ref. There are a dozen different flavors of these and the roms are interchangeable but there's no community around them to get continuous integration and good builds of XBMC setup. There should be an effort to get a distro that will generate nightly builds to target these devices with Linux/Android and optionally XBMC.

I keep rehashing this and everytime I do I say I should start a blog or set of resources for this... I need to follow through but my other projects are more immediately exciting :S

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by Aissen on Friday December 28, 2012 @04:06AM (#4977058)

> There are a gazillion of these.

Nope there aren't, not at this price. Even the pandaboard ES is more expensive (and TI is discontinuing OMAP :-(( ). Sure there are quite a lot Allwinner and Rockchip based boards, but these don't compare to a Samsung Exynos. Not yet.

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by vonmoltke on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:09AM (#4977943)

TI is not discontinuing OMAP. They are discontinuing the tablet-oriented chips and refocusing on embedded. What that means for the hobbyist SBC market remains to be seen.

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by gregsq on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:42AM (#4981830)

This is the kind of thing going on with the Omap5.

http://www.phytec.com/pdf/OMAP5_product_brief.pdf

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by mmozeiko on Friday December 28, 2012 @04:00AM (#4977043)

http://www.cnx-software.com/

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by steevdave on Friday December 28, 2012 @02:16AM (#4976852)

There is a community that is trying to get things working.

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by drivebyacct2 on Friday December 28, 2012 @02:51AM (#4976922)

I think there are lots of very small disjoint communities that are duplicating effort. That's my fear and out look.

I think things are going to spice up for the AMLogic-M{3,6} devices very soon from j1nx.nl.

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by drivebyacct2 on Friday December 28, 2012 @05:40AM (#4977225)

Hot off the press! http://www.j1nx.nl/amlogic-8726-m3-f16ref-where-are-we-now/?...

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