Lessons from the Novena laptop project
Lessons from the Novena laptop project
Posted Aug 21, 2014 6:20 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)Parent article: Lessons from the Novena laptop project
>He advised the developers in the audience to stop assuming that their code was running on the x86 architecture. There are [...] also MIPS, IBM System z, and OpenPOWER boards coming out.
As a developer, if the hardware is too hard to come by, it's ignored.
The typical problems: affordability (contemporary SPARC, IBM POWER and z all start above $1000), lack of at least an approximate price tag on website (Cavium MIPS, Tile processor boards), too little RAM, no SATA connector, and uncertainty about whether it still works when replacing the bundled vendor image with vanilla components.