building a linux stereo receiver?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:04:26PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> The classic problem with the ARM designs is that they are almost
> always designed in a
> sort of "one shot" fashion, with no view to "next year, another model."
> 
> In the IA-32 and x86-64 realms, there's perpetually another
> motherboard model just
> around the corner, and I can expect that if I buy one next year, it'll
> take advantage of
> enhancements that have come over the course of that year, whether that
> be new CPUs,
> new RAM, or such.
> 
> Embedded systems, in contrast, have a pretty potent need to stay the same, which
> is important if you're trying to integrate it into a well-defined set
> of other hardware,
> but not so much if the point of the exercise is a "portable computing point."
> 
> That doubtless makes life difficult for would-be vendors of ARM-based hardware;
> do you pick stability of hardware design, and get the "embedded" market?  Or
> trudge after "keep it up to date" to attract the "itty bitty server" market?

It is obvious it was designed for a cell phone of media player using
USB or network for storage.

It isn't what I want of course, but it probably covers most of the demand.

Just a shame when it is so close to perfect.

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Len Sorensen
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