Submitted by 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.
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.
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.
With only 512M RAM hardly. I wonder if it’s upgradeable. The machine looks very nice.
Edited 2009-08-29 14:08 UTC
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
for such use cases 512 is fine for solaris…