ARM PC/HTPCs are getting interesting! (Via's APC (Android PC) announced).

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 07:19:18PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> What is irritating with the typical ARM system vendors is that they
> seem to set up designs as a one-shot, "that's what it'll always be"
> thing.

If you get a popular model and it has support in the kernel tree from
Linus, then you should have long term support.

> In the embedded space, that's certainly a tempting thing to do, as
> embedded integrators don't want to be changing specs of hardware much,
> that's mighty painful to do.
> 
> But it tends to lead to vendors holding to one model for much longer
> than they ought to, until long after betternewerfaster stuff has
> overshadowed it.
> 
> It is encouraging to me that VIA is doing this; they have been in the
> habit of designing motherboards and chipsets that have fairly frequent
> refresh cycles for their designs; it seems less likely that they will
> fall into that trap.

I would actually think constant churn in models is what causes lack
of support for a design.  So I would consider the VIA design among the
least desirable on that basis.

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Len Sorensen
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