Re: [LAU] APC devices for Audio

2014-02-26 18:24 GMT+01:00 Ivan Tarozzi <itarozzi@email-addr-hidden>:
>
> Il 25/02/2014 09:10, Carlos sanchiavedraz ha scritto:
>> 2014-02-24 16:58 GMT+01:00 Ivan Tarozzi <itarozzi@email-addr-hidden>:
>>> Hi Carlos,
>>> I'm developing an industrial application for a client using APC Rock.
>>>
>>> I'm using Android, so I can confirm that linux runs on it and you can
>>> find kernel and uboot here:
>>> https://github.com/apc-io/apc-rock
>>>
>>> I never tried a "standard" linux ditributions, so I can't tell about it,
>>> but I fear the VIA support against linux is absent.
>>>
>>> I suggest you look at some better supported board.
>>>
>>> just my2c
>>>
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks so much, Ivan.
>> It's really helpful to have such a warn before wanting to purchase one
>> of those and make my life trickier, most of all when surely I would
>> try to put Musix inside that would have some driver problems (it's
>> 100% free/libre based on Debian).
>>
>> I liked the book-style one, but now maybe I'll go some other way.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>
> Hi Carlos,
> I fear you can't put musix on any ARM board. Pay attention to the arch
> when you download an iso.
> I can't find any musix ARM version in the musix mirrors.
>

Yes, I know, I'm part of Musix team ;). But I think I could copy the
main differential things of Musix in a Debian ARM.

>
> Of course you can start from a debian (or other supported distro) and
> then add the programs that you want.
> If a packet is absent in arm repo, you can of course compile yourself.
>
> So, consider all that said when you plan to buy a board and download
> software for it.

Good advices.

>
> Now I have a beaglebone black on my desk. I haven't found spare time to
> test it, but next days I hope to try the debian for BBB.
>
> Here some references:
> http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone+Black
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Debian_On_BeagleBone_Black
>

Our dear co-lister here, Jeremy Jongepier (http://autostatic.com/) , I
think he wrote a post about Beagleboard on his blog time ago. He is
very active trying this kind of mini-PCs. I think it gave him some
headaches.

> I have no idea about debian repo for arm, I don't know if all packages
> that I found in my amd64 repo are present in arm repository.
> Or I could be for the Ubuntu way (I dislike a bit, but here the UBUNTU
> ARM wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM)
>
> I will report you when I completed some test, if you want.

It would be great!

>
> Cheers!
> Ivan
>
>
>
>

Thanks, Ivan.

-- 
Carlos sanchiavedraz
* Musix GNU+Linux
  http://www.musix.es
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