[U-Boot] Seeking ARM development platform suggestions

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Jorgen,

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Jorgen Lundman <lundman at lundman.net> wrote:
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> 1)
> I have a Cubox (http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox) which is quite

Hmmm, too 'self contained' for what I'm after - The Raspberry Pi
already fills the spot this would

> 2)
> I have a Mele A2000
> (http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/04/mele-a2000-android-2-3-media-player-powered-by-allwinner-a10/)

This looks promising at ~ AU$100 with USB, SD/MMC, VGA, HDMI, SATA,
Ethernet, WiFi, Sound w/ Optical Out

> which fancier in the Android department (JB4.1 available) and have Linux
> images, but needs extra dongle for serial. Could "just about" be a
> mediaplayer for locally attached media (maybe) but once you add network play
> and a greater selection of codecs, it moves into "not ready to be a full
> mediaplayer".

How far off would it be? If I put a really trimmed down Linux xmbc, do
you think it could handle it?

> Also not in mainline u-boot, but the u-boot available is less hacky.

I've seen some comments on a few review sites mentioning U-Boot

> Neither run XBMC enough to be useful.

Oh :( - just how far off do you think?

> The general "mood" of the embedded dev community seems to be, to me, to move
> away from these Companies, as the promised source releases has not been
> sufficient. The current interest seems to be AM.logic's dualcore board.
> (http://ao2.it/en/blog/2012/08/10/amlogic-aml8726-mx-linux-kernel-code-released)

Seems to be more tablet oriented - can't find any 'media players' based on this

Thanks for the info

Regards,

Graeme