Samsung Cortex-15 Dev Board

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21 points·gregsq··7 comments

Sigh, its a cool board, at $100 it would be game changing, at $250 its just another evaluation kit. The continued lack of docs on the ARM GPU is extremely annoying.

It is a lot harder to work with these phone and tablet type chips. ARM have open sourced the Mali driver code but you still need the DDK, which requires a license. The reverse engineering efforts on GPU command streams are also a labour of love from Lima etc.

And it would be twice as good if it cost half as much.

Indeed. Not like the VIDC that they used to ship before they were spun off from Acorn.

I wish someone would solve this problem with an open source graphics core that is ARM bus compatible.

Combine this board with a 256GB SSD and WiFi, and you have a prototype for a puck sized PC. Add some apps, to allow you to use a laptop or a netbook as an input device, and there might be a compelling product developed on here.

Its the same price as a Chromebook, although it does have more ports, ethernet, serial and jtag useful, but pretty similar hardware spec I would guess.

I can't see any power consumption figures which is annoying.

I do believe that it's closest siblings are Chromebook and Nexus 10. Graphics benchmarks are slightly under the Nexus 10 but that could be due to a number of things. [1]

For me the main interest are the schematics and fudging a quad core when it arrives. As well as having all the peripherals available for development choices.

[1]http://www.glbenchmark.com/phonedetails.jsp?benchmark=glpro2...

$250, plus you'll need a power adapter.

Mali GPU, so that is closed, but has a reverse engineered open source driver.

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