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LED test board for Hikey
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LED test board for Hikey
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Tony,
The HiKey looks very interesting, but it desperately needs a GPIO breakout at 3v3, something like the BaseBoard for the Guitar.
Best Regards,
Bill
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Because the Kirin 620 output is 1.8V, and the 96boards specification limit the board size, so it is hard to add to much power level shift on the board itself. |
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Why? Have you ever had a look at what to expect from this 96boards initiative and the specific SoC in question?
https://www.96boards.org/forums/topic/hikey-usb-limitations/
Why using an octa-core CPU without any external I/O bandwidth/connectivity? What's the use case? I'm really interested in your findings since apart from a certain level of hype generated around 96boards I see nothing interesting at all (since there exists not a single 96board that is compliant to their own specs regarding software support).
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Of course I know the issue. If you have more deep investigation, you will know the Kirin 620 is original applied on mobile phone. The same situation the Drango Board 410c faced.
The main strenghth the Hikey is the ararch 64 development platform.
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I know that the Kirin and the Snapdragon 410 used on the Dragonboard are SoCs for mobile phones and not suited for SBC useage. Again: Why should I have a look at any of these 96boards (when I don't work for/with Linaro and MUST support them)?
I don't want to deal with UEFI/GRUB on any ARM board -- that's just weird.
If I want to start with AArch64/arm64 development boards I order a Pine64 for $15 or something based on Rockchip like the Geekbox for example.
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I can only say everybody has his own taste. Impossible to satisfy everyone. 
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