CuBox

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

| That's pretty darn cute.  Similar to the i.MX53 QSB I have (although
| the i.MX doesn't have a case, but does have twice the ram and runs a
| bit faster).
| 
| Would make an excellent mythtv frontend.

These toys look fun to me.  And the prices aren't horrible.

As far as I know, none of these kinds of systems has an open source
video driver.  The ARM world seems to be horrible that way.

>From the <http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2012/01/cubox.html> posting:

    Biggest disappointment so far is the non-mainline kernel, based on
    old 2.6.32.9. Some mainline support of Armada 510 exist, but will
    it work with the proprietary graphics code?

In the Raspberry Pi case, the source is closed but they think that
they've got a driver that exposes an interface that won't prevent the
rest of the system from moving forward.  We'll see if that pans out.

On
<http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX53QSB>
there is a link with a description 

	IMX53_11_09_LINUX_MMCODECS: Linux Multimedia Codecs
	Documentation and Sources 11.09 for i.MX53 for the Quick Start
	boards.

I wonder how that works since Codecs are usually patent-encumbered.
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