Re: System-On-Module

From: Lundberg, Johannes <johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:50:25 +0900
How about these Tegra3 boards?

https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/apalis-arm-family/nvidia-tegra-3


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Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 09:12 +0900, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
> > Ah now I see it has EDM connection. I didn't look carefully enough. All
> the
> > images are with the expansion board attached..
> >
> > Spec-wise and portability-wise it seems like a good option but my
> hardware
> > guy keeps warning me about Freescale that they often have hardware bugs
> and
> > rather than fixing the bugs they pretend they are not there.. In other
> > words, Freescale is good for software developers because of open
> > documentation but not so for hardware manufactures. Any experiences with
> > this?
>
> The imx6 manuals include an errata list, so it would be good to check
> that for anything specific that would matter to your projects.
>
> For the devices we use in our products everything is good so far with
> the hardware.  That's emmc, sdcard, ethernet, i2c, uarts, usb, and lots
> of gpio (inputs and outputs).  The ethernet is gigabit but has a known
> limitation of 40MB/s due to the bus it's connected to in the chip.  (But
> hey, it's documented so it's not a problem, right? :)
>
> You mentioned video, and we don't have that working on freebsd imx6 yet,
> but there's not a ton of work to do.  There's a framebuffer driver for
> imx5 and it has pretty much the same framebuffer hardware.  Getting
> video output to a TTL LCD is probably just hours of work.  Getting it to
> an LVDS LCD or HDMI probably needs days of work (entire drivers written,
> potentially, I haven't looked into it).
>
> Some audio support was recently committed, but I don't know much about
> it yet.
>
> -- Ian
>
>
>

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