On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:48:46 +0100 Axel Theilmann <axel@nomaden.org> wrote:
moin,
The only SoC with built-in USB3 and reasonable OpenSUSE support that I'm aware of is the Exynos5. You could try and see whether the Arndale Board or the ODROID-XU good for you:
if you're talking about the pre-built jeos images, the beagleboard should be supported quite well as well. although its also not really cheap, but its easier to order than the odroid or even the arndale.
https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:BeagleBoard-xM
but the beaglebone is a bit dated (and hence well supported). the odroid-xu and the arndale are _much_ faster. but especially the odroid-xu is pretty bleeding edge (and it seems the specific SoC on the odroid-xu (exynos 5410) has a silicon bug, and theres already an odroid-xu2 announced which will be released soon.)
if the jeos-beagle image works on a "beaglebone black" as well, that would probably be option with the best bang per buck ration. it costs about the same as as raspi, but is a lot more powerful.
http://www.exp-tech.de/Mainboards/BeagleBone-Black.html
i can try if the jeos-beagle image works on there.
Maybe the new CubieBoard has everything you need too, but I don't have any experience with those:
- http://cubieboard.org/2013/10/30/cubieboard3-cubietruck-is-all-ready/
the cubietruck is a nice board, but not very well supported yet (at all) since its pretty new.
they're pretty affordable, but the allwinner SoC that all the cubie boards are based on needs a special kernel (linux-sunxi, based on linux 3.4). some initial support for allwinner is in 3.12 mainline linux, but not much works yet (no permanent storage, no graphics, no usb...basicaly you can boot to initrd and thats it..). the linux-sunxi kernel works ok, but since it's not mainline and does not support device tree yet. creating images is not very elegant. (i'm working with an a20-olinuxino-micro at the moment, also based on the allwinner A20 soc).
if you don't need all the interfaces the cubietruck has, the cubieboard 2 or the a20-olinuxino-micro are cheaper choices.
in all, the allwinner boards are cheap, work in general, but are a bit of a hassle to get to work with opensuse/JeoOS.
i'll test the jeos-beagle image on the beaglebone black and get back to you..
oh, and whatever you do, stay away from rk8133 boards..they're horrible ;)
tty, axel
I was going to bump my post about running opensuse on the Beagle Bone Black, but I guess this thread will do. Note that the Beagle Board XM has an issues with the USB hub chip and it requires a kernel hack. Someone (sorry I forget who on the list but thank that person just the same) made me an image with the hack implemented. At this point the question remains if the usb hub hack made it into the standard distribution. My use is headless, i.e. I don't care about the GPU. What I really want is something that runs opensuse, is dual core, and has 4 usb 2 ports. The Beagleboard XM was OK, but I managed to just hit the CPU limit in one application. And of course I will probably never have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the Beagleboard XM in any remote use since that usb bug is fixed with a software patch rather than something that is correct from the get go. One reason I was looking at the Beagle Bone Black is it is cheap enough that I could get 4 boards for the price of one higher end SBC. As a general comment to this thread, it helps to have a bit more horsepower than you think you need for the final task since you will probably be compiling on the same board. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org