On Wed, May 31, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 04:45 +0200, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 05:28:31PM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm writing it here to hear opinions of other ambassadors. Do you
> > think
> > > > it's something worth investing time and money in?
> > >
> > > I read that it was already used on one conference, do you know how
> > many
> > > people used it to create a USB device? As an ambassador it sounds
> > like a
> > > cool exhibition item to me but I am not sure how many people would
> > > actually use it. If people like to use it I could imagine that they
> > > would also prefer a USB 3 capable device to make sure it writing
> > the
> > > sticks does not take too long but this makes it a little bit more
> > > expensive. AFAIK the cheapest USB3 capable board would be a Odroid
> > XU4:
> >
> > I've heard that the odroid isn't currently able to run a community
> > kernel. Apparently there are still non-open patches from the vendor.
> >
> > Is this the case?
>
> I presume that because I'm added in the cc: this question is directed
> at me :)

It could be :) 

>
> I believe the XU4 should run fine, there's an issue around rootfs on
> MMC which has a known work around and there should be a fix in place in
> time for F-26 GA. But other than that quirk I believe they run just
> fine although I'm not sure what you mean by "community kernel" as
> Fedora ARM supports the pure upstream based Fedora kernel only.

Jim (now added - I'm going to add a new person with every reply .. j/k) implies this morning that we could use this board without running the vendor kernel. 

Regards,

bex 


>
> > regards,
> >
> > bex
> >
> > > http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G14345
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> > >
> > > But maybe they would also be interested to sponsor devices if we
> > use
> > > them to show at booths...
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Till
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