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General => Developers => Topic started by: rages on March 28, 2011, 03:31:49 pm
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Hi,
I have this board for other jobs, there is a chance to test it as a media director?
Emanuele
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Sure. Port the various packages needed to function as a media director. :)
-Thom
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Hi,
I have this board for other jobs, there is a chance to test it as a media director?
Emanuele
We're waiting for our Panda board to be delivered... so we cant say 100% for sure yet but we do feel confident that we will have Dianemo 10.10 ported to this hardware in the near future and this will mean for both MD & Core functionality. I'll post an update here as soon as we have any news.
All the best
Andrew
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...both MD & Core functionality...
Just curious, it has a single 10/100 LAN, and no PCI expansion (any flavor PCI). How will you get Gigabit networking in there?
Bryce
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Just curious, it has a single 10/100 LAN, and no PCI expansion (any flavor PCI). How will you get Gigabit networking in there?
Bryce
We may use a single NIC...we used to ship systems like that at one time. Alternatively we may use a USB NIC for the 2nd NIC.
All the best
Andrew
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um, why would you add a second nic if its going to be used as an MD, unless the onboard was too slow
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um, why would you add a second nic if its going to be used as an MD, unless the onboard was too slow
Yeah I actually mis-read that earlier question. When deployed as an MD we think for the most part 100mbit LAN connection is going to be fine - especially as we will almost certainly locally boot from Flash. But we're also interested in what we can do with the Panda board as a Core...and thats why my response to the earlier question was slightly misdirected. In a Core configuration we will probably just add a USB NIC (that will be good enough for testing at least) to enable us to have LAN & WAN side NIC's.
All the best
Andrew
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excuse my stupid question, but what are the packages needed for a media director?? There is a list of packages or an example of media director??
could be a start, take the mini version of hari?
Emanuele
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excuse my stupid question, but what are the packages needed for a media director?? There is a list of packages or an example of media director??
could be a start, take the mini version of hari?
Emanuele
I dont have the package list at hand - I think that is available on the Wiki or by looking at the scripts that create MD's. Hari's mini installation could be built for the Panda board for sure. What we are planning to do though is build a full MD.
Andrew
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excuse my stupid question, but what are the packages needed for a media director?? There is a list of packages or an example of media director??
could be a start, take the mini version of hari?
Emanuele
might to want to look at link below as there are 2 more packages needed to use all functionality
http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/development-environment
after looking through the specs these boards interest me alot and i might purchase one when i have the money
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might to want to look at link below as there are 2 more packages needed to use all functionality
http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/development-environment
after looking through the specs these boards interest me alot and i might purchase one when i have the money
Well they are flooded with orders at the moment and apparently production has been hit badly by the disaster in Japan.
Andrew
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I've been waiting about 3 months for it.
I have ordered on Digikey U.S. and I paid 147 € + 18 € (italian taxes).
Emanuele
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i have found that they can be powered from USB but i still cannot find if it can be powered from PoE, i dont think it can but just that feature would sell me on it
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Hi,
I noticed that the pandaboard supports booting from pxe.
I think that creating an ARM image and a device template may be a correct way or not?
Emanuele
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that is part of the process. The media director interactor needs to be modified as well, so that if a pandaboard is detected, it will emit the Pandaboard device template.
-Thom
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Well they are flooded with orders at the moment and apparently production has been hit badly by the disaster in Japan.
Andrew
Snowball will be an interesting alternative. ;)
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Snowball
-Olivier
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i have found that they can be powered from USB but i still cannot find if it can be powered from PoE, i dont think it can but just that feature would sell me on it
I am powering my (non-PoE) cameras using PoE, made possible with a "poe injector extractor kit" (have a look on eBay).
Cheers,
Matt.
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Snowball will be an interesting alternative. ;)
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Snowball
-Olivier
i dont see hdmi, only rca
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“With its dual-core processor, combined with support for 3D graphics, HD video and HDMI output, Snowball is a multimedia powerhouse.”
http://www.stericsson.com/press_releases/Igloo_Snowball.jsp
full specs in the datasheet (pdf)
http://www.igloocommunity.org/Snowball_Datasheet.pdf
-Olivier
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snowball:
price ~250EUR
availability ~not available now
pandaboard:
price ~135EUR
availability ~not available now
what again is the advantage of snowball over pandaboard?
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244 EUR is the price for the Product Development Kit version; the SDK version, a simple dev board like the Panda, will be cheaper:
Prices announced in February:
PDK version: 300 $
SDK version: 200 $
more info here:
http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/02/15/snowball-new-cortex-a9-community-board-from-st-ericsson/
-Olivier
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the snowball has 4-8 gigs of onboard memory in addition to the sd card it looks like
and the snowball looks like it has to possibility to be POE if use with an extractor, where the pandaboard cannot because of current requirements
i do like the snowball, but i feel like i would be wasting the accelerometer that comes on it