Re: [fedora-arm] Best hardware for Fedora/ARM Audio "Server"?

Hi,

Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net> writes:

> IIRC DreamPlug also has optical audio port.

True, but it's a v5, isn't it? That's not supported at all.

> One thing to consider is CPU generation. Don't know about Wandaboard,
> but Pi is ARMv6 and Trimslice is ARMv7.
>
> AFAIK support for everything before ARMv7 has been dropped from Fedora.

Yes, but there is PiDora, which is a respin for v6. However you're
right that something like the Wandboard is more powerful. Looks like I
can get a Wandboard Solo + Case + Power for about $100, not quite double
the cost of the RPi for about 2x the performance.

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> writes:

> Hey, Derek!
>
> Look at: http://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=cubieboard
>
> For people that have built cases for Cubieboard2 and particularly:
>
> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:151160
>
> I am thinking this for a NAS etc box.
>
> If you go with the Cubietruck, the Ewell case posted on cubieboard.org
> not only supports the 2.5 drive, but also a battery if you want!

I'm specifically looking for single-use boxes here. It would be *nice*
if I could get one box to drive multiple audio zones, but if they are
cheap enough then having one box per zone would be fine. But I'm not
looking for NAS or anything else today (actually I plan to build a large
multi-TB NAS server, but it's not going to be ARM-based).

The CT doesn't look like it has audio, but more importantly it doesn't
look as-well-supported as the Wandboard.

The cubox-i looks amazing for what it provides, but it doesn't have
analog audio. Alas, the amps I'm currently looking at don't have SPIDF
input so that wouldn't work well for me.

So thanks, all. I think I'll order a Wandboard Solo to test this out.
I can always select different hardware later, or upgrade to the Dual or
Quad if I find I need more CPU power. But audio processing doesn't
really require lots of CPU. I was able to do basic DSP functions on my
8-bit 6502-based Atari 800 back in the mid-1980s, with only 48K of RAM.
I'm sure 512MB on an ARM can do much better, provided there is
sufficient design of the board so we don't get electrical interference.

I just need to find a good 5V power supply. ;)

Thanks everyone!!

-derek

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