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OlinuXino LIME vs BBB ?

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Former Member over 12 years ago

http://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/a10-olinuxino-lime-eur-30-open-source-hardware-linux-sbc-first-prototypes/

 

Plus points:

Designed to be cased from the outset.

Connectors placed with some thought.

SATA image

 

Downsides:

1.27mm gpio connectors not so easy to use

100Mb/s network

 

At 30 euros with a decent spec that includes sata there's a fair chance it could give the BBB a run for it's money, and it's an obvious RPi killer. Indeed these days the only use I have for the RPi is the camera, so largely don't see it as competitive any more - it's had it's day and did a good job of kick starting competition..

 

There's more than a few of us who would buy the LIME if e14 were to stock them...

 

element14Dave any chance of passing along to your procurement people that we'd really love it it e14 were to offer more of the OlinuXino range ?

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  • morgaine
    morgaine over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member +2
    selsinork wrote: and here was me thinking you'd been having a quiet word in someones ear Quiet word? He was smacking them over the head with a baseball bat until they submitted! Morgaine.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to morgaine +1
    Morgaine Dinova wrote: I just need the Sabre-Lite to be cheaper! Agreed. However it's a bit of a compromise for me... The cost of one (quad core) SL is equivalent to four-and-a-bit BBB's. So does…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member +1
    I just checked the supplied android image and that sets the DDR3 to 432MHz instead of the 480MHz that the debian image they supply uses. So seems you were right, my particular board isn't happy at 480MHz…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I just checked the supplied android image and that sets the DDR3 to 432MHz instead of the 480MHz that the debian image they supply uses.  So seems you were right, my particular board isn't happy at 480MHz but hopefully is at 432 or less.

     

    Seems like an interesting way of working. Anyone reporting instability problems gets asked to try booting the pre-installed Android image which of course works due to much more conservative settings.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Just a quick update: the CB2 locked up again with the ddr clock set to 384. So while the memory speed may be a problem, there's some other factor as well. Time to try a new kernel I think.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    So after getting an A20-OlinuXino-MICRO, I borrowed it's 3.4.x kernel and the CB2 seems to be stable with that.

     

    Allwinner kernels at least up to the 3.4.67 series from sunxi.org don't use devicetree, instead using a script.fex that's plaintext and very much resembles the old ini format. You compile the file to script.bin and u-boot loads it for the kernel to use. This not only makes it easy to copy one for a different board, but at least in my opinion makes it much easier to change.

     

    Moral of the story yet again is to ditch what comes with the boards and get something that works.. Unless it's an Olimex board - their stuff seems to work just fine!

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago

    Olimex are showing LIME back in stock today if anyone wants one !

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  • morgaine
    morgaine over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Thanks for the prompt!

     

    Link to A10-OLinuXino-LIME product page here for the lazy. image

     

    And a piccie because we haven't had one here yet ..

    A10-OLinuXino-LIME-1.jpg

    Sweeeet. image

     

    Morgaine.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to morgaine

    From #olimex on freenode yesterday:

    <Tsvetan> duoi Farnell have low shipping charges to Australia and most of the paperwork to stock LIME is done image

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  • morgaine
    morgaine over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Woohoo!  Excellent news! image

     

    Morgaine.

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  • fustini
    fustini over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Good news!  I was hoping Premier Farnell companies would start stocking the exciting new boards that tsvetan posts about

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    Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to fustini

    and here was me thinking you'd been having a quiet word in someones ear image

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    morgaine over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    selsinork wrote:

     

    and here was me thinking you'd been having a quiet word in someones ear

     

    Quiet word?  He was smacking them over the head with a baseball bat until they submitted! image

     

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