[oe] FYI: Snowball (new low-cost board similar to beagle/panda)

[Petr Štetiar]

Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> [2011-06-18 09:20:54]:

> it was announced on linux devices :
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Calao-Systems-Snowball/ but as you
> can see on their "community" site there are not much news since this date :
> http://www.igloocommunity.org/

I wonder, if that SOC used on this board is going to be as "easily" sourceable
as it's the Omap4 on Pandaboard. Or it's meant to be sourced in the huge
quantities only also?

> If you want to pay for an "open" board to become a "free" beta tester for 
> an other phone/tablet cpu manufacturer you can also wait for  
> http://www.origenboard.org/

Ditto.

And I sometimes wonder, which company is going to trademark some of the
buzzwords around the "free/open/community" first or even patent some kind of
"free/open/community" work flow :-)

> Next one in the list may be using an iMX6 from Freescale (in the page, this
> one is said to also target industrial applications and not only
> phones/tablets) :
> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=IMX6X_SERIES
> which will surely have its equivalent of the i.MX53's QSB :
> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53QSB

Good to know, I was wondering last week, what is that Loco board in the Linux
kernel tree :-)

-- ynezz