Mr_Loon
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Q) What would Pandora Developers think if P2 used an x86 SOC?
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It strikes me that with the soon to be released x86 based Bay Trail Socs from Intel that there is a genuine question to be answered as to whether P2 should aim to use an ARM based or X86 based SOC.
For the sake of the question please assume that the choice is purely about x86 vs ARM, i.e. both possible P2 SOCs would have near identical performance / cost / power usage etc.
From my perspective as a user it strikes me that the main reason for sticking with ARM (in the above scenario) would be that a lot of work done by the Pandora Dev's would have gone to waste / not be used as much as it deserves to be. However I'm no dev, I've no real idea what motivates people to develop for Pandora, I'm just damn glad they do.
It would be great to hear from any developer of Pandora software / firmware as to what they think of a possible move to x86 as keeping the core Pandora community together should be a major goal of P2 IMHO.
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This has been discussed a little in this thread but I think it's worth a dedicated discussion.
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It strikes me that with the soon to be released x86 based Bay Trail Socs from Intel that there is a genuine question to be answered as to whether P2 should aim to use an ARM based or X86 based SOC.
For the sake of the question please assume that the choice is purely about x86 vs ARM, i.e. both possible P2 SOCs would have near identical performance / cost / power usage etc.
From my perspective as a user it strikes me that the main reason for sticking with ARM (in the above scenario) would be that a lot of work done by the Pandora Dev's would have gone to waste / not be used as much as it deserves to be. However I'm no dev, I've no real idea what motivates people to develop for Pandora, I'm just damn glad they do.
It would be great to hear from any developer of Pandora software / firmware as to what they think of a possible move to x86 as keeping the core Pandora community together should be a major goal of P2 IMHO.
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This has been discussed a little in this thread but I think it's worth a dedicated discussion.
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