It does look like performance is pretty decent, even for non-video tasks. T=
he drivers for handing off rendering to the special accelerator part of the=
 CPU are coming along as well. Last I heard there were still some parts of =
X that weren't accelerated yet (window moves?). Anyway, I'm sure those will=
 get implemented and polished pretty quickly.

I think on a watt-per-performance basis (as far as machines capable of runn=
ing a full Linux distro) this is doing pretty damn good.

IIRC there are Debian-based distros that are also pretty close to baked for=
 ARM.

Should be a very interesting year for embedded/small Linux!

Mine should ship in early May.  :-)

-Pete
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On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:15 AM, mcd@is-sixsigma.com wrote:

> Wouter van Ooijen zei ...
>> It is basically a big ARM chip (with video hardware), RAM, some
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> Well, actually, the ARM processor is a tiny part of the huge video chip.
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>> boot-flash, and a memory card. It runs Linux, but probably not on par
>> (speedwise)  with your current desktop.
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> It isn't exactly a slouch, though.  Apparently with the fancy video chip
> it is quite adept at playing video games.  Since the target is kids this
> is an important feature.  At FUDcon they showed it playing Quake quite
> acceptably.  You probably wouldn't take a handful of them and call it a
> server farm, tho.
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> It is my understanding that it will ship with Fedora, so the normal gcc
> toolchain will be readily available. Fedora expects to make ARM a primary
> architecture by Fedora 18, so all >10,000 packages will be available
> hassle-free.  The ARM effort is close now, so almost all the packages are
> available.  They just didn't make it under the wire for Fedora 17, whose
> Alpha shipped Tuesday.
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