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| 01:59.20 | bjorkintosh | hmm. this is a dead channel isn't it? |
| 09:58.51 | eFfeM_work | mostly |
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| 11:47.56 | bjorkintosh | heh. |
| 11:48.13 | bjorkintosh | eFfeM_work, is the hawkboard still a good one to get? |
| 11:48.25 | bjorkintosh | is it easily available or should i look elsewhere? |
| 11:56.24 | w|zzy | bjorkintosh: what do you want to do with it? |
| 11:57.09 | bjorkintosh | w|zzy, i know little about writing OSes, i'd like to use it as my clay. |
| 11:57.25 | w|zzy | Ahh cool. |
| 11:57.36 | bjorkintosh | i'm looking at the beagleboard and the raspberry pi (whenever it gets done) as well. |
| 11:57.48 | bjorkintosh | not sure what to get yet. they're all ARM machines. |
| 11:57.52 | w|zzy | Well.. i have one of the bunch before it had the memory issues. |
| 11:58.01 | w|zzy | arm is huge range |
| 11:58.18 | bjorkintosh | do they still have memory issues? |
| 11:58.31 | w|zzy | No idea.. It seemed to basically kill the project.. |
| 11:58.46 | w|zzy | i know element 14 dont stock them anymore |
| 11:58.53 | bjorkintosh | hmm. |
| 11:59.00 | bjorkintosh | so what's a good alternative, in your opinion? |
| 11:59.41 | w|zzy | A chip with a memory controller is good.. |
| 12:00.31 | bjorkintosh | for playing around with OSes? |
| 12:00.35 | w|zzy | Depends how new you are... Its always easier to choose a project with people already doing similar projects to what you wish to. |
| 12:00.55 | bjorkintosh | well all these devices have linux running on them already. |
| 12:01.14 | w|zzy | Correct. Hence the memory controller.. |
| 12:01.19 | w|zzy | You cant run linux without one |
| 12:01.25 | bjorkintosh | sure. |
| 12:01.44 | bjorkintosh | so what's a good alternative board with a memory controller? |
| 12:01.50 | bjorkintosh | ARM based as well. |
| 12:03.01 | w|zzy | beaglebone? |
| 12:04.24 | bjorkintosh | have you ever used one? |
| 12:04.33 | w|zzy | Nope... |
| 12:04.39 | w|zzy | Only ever used the hawkboard |
| 12:04.54 | bjorkintosh | they're very similar aren't they? |
| 12:06.03 | w|zzy | http://beagleboard.org/bone. |
| 12:06.05 | w|zzy | http://beagleboard.org/bone |
| 12:08.41 | w|zzy | Doesnt have the dsp and a few other things |
| 12:08.44 | w|zzy | but still very capable. |
| 12:16.01 | bjorkintosh | what did you use the DSP components for? |
| 13:04.19 | eFfeM_work | bjorkintosh: it depends what you want to do with the device, not sure if the hawkboard is still available, the 2nd batch had some problems; not sure what happened after that. |
| 13:04.36 | eFfeM_work | advantage of hawk compared to beagle or rasp pi is that it has sata |
| 13:05.04 | bjorkintosh | ooh nice. |
| 13:05.17 | bjorkintosh | pity about the 2nd bad batch. |
| 13:05.32 | eFfeM_work | if you do not need sata and need no sophisticated stuff the pi or beaglebone might be nice for you, if you want wifi etc and/or more cpu cycles go for panda |
| 13:05.57 | eFfeM_work | actaully this channel is not too active, not toomuch hawk users I suspect |
| 13:35.34 | bjorkintosh | not enough hawk boards to make hawk users. |
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