Re: [gentoo-embedded] A-15 Dev boards

[wireless]

On 04/27/13 20:26, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 26 April 2013 16:45:45 wireless wrote:
>> On 04/26/13 16:06, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> depending on your exact needs, i might recommend a Samsung Arm
>>> Chromebook:
>>> http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-
>>> devices/samsung-arm-chromebook
>>>
>>> that's my main arm dev platform now, and it's a decent laptop to boot :).
>>> it's also the same price as that dev board ($250).
>>
>> Interesting option. What OS do you run on that laptop?
>> multiboot?
>
> it ships with ChromeOS which is based on Gentoo and runs Linux.  all the
> source has been released for the u-boot&  linux, and most of it has been
> merged into the respective mainlines.

I just read the wikipedia history of Chrome (OS). I did not realize
it was based on portage...nice.

How easy is it to add ebuilds (packages?) Got a wiki or site for this
sort of shared user activity?



> so that's what i run on it ... plain Gentoo.

So it's pretty straight forward to ebuild, even overlays or
home-rolled ebuilds?

>
>> Note, the dev board I mentioned has SATA ports build in so you
>> can put all sorts of different HD on the dev system. Still
>> have an A15 SOC in a laptop package, is very appealing....
>
> that is the one downside to the laptop.  its main disk is 16GiB flash connected
> to one of the eMMC ports.  it has an additional SD port for cards (so i put a
> 64GiB in there), and it has two USB ports (2.0 and 3.0), so you could hook
> external disks up.  i would have loved to have a SATA port in there though.


I could justify the purchase for marine navigation alone.

Have you ever tried  sci-geosciences/opencpn ?
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/
http://marinux.pk973.org/

I'd be courious how readable the display is in bright sunlight?

I'm going to purchase one this week. Best vendor for US customers?

thx,
James