Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Aug 2009 20:17 UTC, submitted by pczanik
Genesi just launched the Efika MX 'smarttop' - an ARM-based Linux device with HD video capability. Based on the Freescale i.MX515 processor (800Mhz ARM), it includes WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, and only consumes about 7W of power.
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RE: platform for opensolaris ARM port?
by dvzt on Sat 29th Aug 2009 14:03
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RE[2]: platform for opensolaris ARM port?
by matt@genesi-usa.com on Sat 29th Aug 2009 14:22
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The 512MB RAM is a limitation of the i.MX515 and is therefore soldered onto the board. You can do some very clever stuff with tools like http://compcache.googlecode.com to compress the page cache and backing swap in Linux, and even reduce disk bandwidth for swap by means of compression.
The reduced latency of reading compressed pages from RAM instead of disk improves performance, plus the reduced time to read 1/3rd of the data from disk and then decompress it also improves overall system responsivity 
RE[2]: platform for opensolaris ARM port?
by chekr on Mon 31st Aug 2009 10:12
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I hope that this ends up as a platform for the OpenSolaris ARM port as Genesi have worked very well with open source communities in the past.