OMAP3 - pleasant surprise

[DaveG]

If anyone fancies a cheap ARM development kit I can report that GLBasic Pandora executables seem to run fine on an IGEP v2 board running Linaro. The only issue I've encountered so far is that the resolution seems to be fixed at 800x480, which is not the end of the world ... Not sure about sound as I don't have it plugged into anything (I'd have to take my case apart again) - but if anyone's interested let me know.

If anyone wants anything tested send me the executable and I'll give it a whack.

Cheers,
Dave.

[Kitty Hello]

Cool! You can change the resolution... no you can't.
Should I enable that?

[mentalthink]

Wow, this is a really cool notice. I look the board, and is very chaper, the factory on make this boards are very near of my city. It´s a very interesant notice, so I think is a vey good for fun. And appliacations of this board?¿, a future new Glbasic console?¿ perhaps I´m a dreamer. But i look the measures of the boards, and is very factible, another fact is the mode for power the boards.

Kinds regards, and thanks for the info Dave. For me is very interant your comment.

Iván J.

[DaveG]

Yes please! Unless it'll make a mess of the Pandora support of course, but as long as it defaults to 800x480 I don't see how it would (I don't have a Pandora to test on unfortunately).

I'm looking at getting a Pandaboard at some point (OMAP4) - will let you know how it runs on that. AFAIK it should be binary compatible (according to the ARM website).

Many thanks,
Dave.

[DaveG]

@Ivan,

Yep - they're nifty little machines. Can be a bit of a swine to set up, and the I/O via the microSD card seems very slow (or maybe it's the card itself), but definitely worth a look. Also it took ages for mine to arrive out here in Australia but I guess that won't be a problem for you . Looking forward to someone bringing out an A15 version!

Cheers,
Dave.

[Kitty Hello]

OK, next update will be able to set the resolution. Can you share the message on theirs boards?

[DaveG]

Yep - will do.

Cheers,
Dave.

[mentalthink]

@dAVE

Sorry for my later reply, well I wait to have a bit money, and perhaps I buy this board, I like this kind of electronic.
Thanks for the info about the board... if you need some help whit it, comment me, how I sayed the company is at the out of Barcelona, and if you have any problem whit the board or guarantee or some burocratic thing, comment me,  I can call from your part, no problem, and after comment to you.

Kinds Regards,
Iván J.

[DaveG]

@mentalthink : Me too! Sorry - a combination of flu, work and leaving my Netbook in a taxi over the last week or so has left me been a bit out of touch ..

Actually I've had no problems at all with the IGEP (apart from the slow I/O, but I'm not convinced that isn't the fault of the mini-SD card - also the initial setup can be a bugger), but thanks all the same.

@Kitty Hello : Any idea when the next point release will be out? I'm guessing it's waiting on the Android stuff?

Cheers,
Dave.

[Kitty Hello]

No idea. You can get and use the beta in the meantime and tell me if it works for you.