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News => New Product Ideas => Topic started by: insink71 on February 11, 2014, 11:08:22 AM

Title: A31 based OLINUXINO
Post by: insink71 on February 11, 2014, 11:08:22 AM
Looked over your boards.. real nice.  Just wondered if there might be a planned A31 (allwinner) board.  That quad-core appears to be quite a versatile chip and still based on the Arm Cortex A7 [like the nice A20's recently released].  I see you guys' plan to move to TI, but I didn't know if one might hold out hope for such.  Saw the wit-tech/merrii boards, but I'm all about getting some data sheets in english and having a community I could actually communicate with... so just sniffing I suppose  ;)
Title: Re: A31 based OLINUXINO
Post by: olimex on February 11, 2014, 01:23:47 PM
A31 uses PoverVR which means no open source video/3D, this is what hold back linux-sunxi community to get involved with it
There is IIRC campain on kickstarter from US guy who is re-selling Chinese tablets with some kind of Linux flavour, but don't know the details, probably he is using the Android binary blobs and is stick to particular kernel version
Title: Re: A31 based OLINUXINO
Post by: kylebassett on March 23, 2014, 03:02:52 AM
Open source GPU/VPU is very important to us over here!

Title: Re: A31 based OLINUXINO
Post by: rds100 on March 25, 2014, 12:14:27 PM

Are there any powerful ARM CPUs without GPUs? Are there plans for boards with such CPUs?
For some projects a GPU is not needed at all, serial console is enough.