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Idea: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
5th Dec, 2014, 12:59 AM
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Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
A few months ago Imagination Tech announced the CI20, now its official and will cost 65 bucks but with a lot of extras that the Pi does not have (including more compute power).

CI20 specs and table of comparison VS the Pi

Is there any plans to compile a version of Xbian to this MIPS arch board?

For the price, its very attractive computer...
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5th Dec, 2014, 01:18 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
If they can provide at least free board for us we might...

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5th Dec, 2014, 03:21 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(5th Dec, 2014 01:18 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  If they can provide at least free board for us we might...

If u are in the US they might...

i've applied for 1 unit but i'm in Europe so they politely said NO Sad
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5th Dec, 2014, 04:02 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(5th Dec, 2014 03:21 AM)Exnor Wrote:  
(5th Dec, 2014 01:18 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  If they can provide at least free board for us we might...

If u are in the US they might...

i've applied for 1 unit but i'm in Europe so they politely said NO Sad

unfortunately none of our active developers are located in US

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5th Dec, 2014, 06:40 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(5th Dec, 2014 04:02 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  
(5th Dec, 2014 03:21 AM)Exnor Wrote:  
(5th Dec, 2014 01:18 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  If they can provide at least free board for us we might...

If u are in the US they might...

i've applied for 1 unit but i'm in Europe so they politely said NO Sad

unfortunately none of our active developers are located in US

Really? So you guys are all European?
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5th Dec, 2014, 06:50 AM
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Yep

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5th Dec, 2014, 07:48 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
I was a kernel maintainer for Android, back porting patches and such. I also used to be a package maintainer for Debian then Gentoo but I haven't developed for Xbian currently. I have been working on an rtl_sdr package but other than that family life keeps me occupied. If someone was to help pay for shipping I could receive a device in the US and ship it to one of the active developers such as CurlyMo or mk01.

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5th Dec, 2014, 08:21 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(5th Dec, 2014 07:48 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  I was a kernel maintainer for Android, back porting patches and such. I also used to be a package maintainer for Debian then Gentoo but I haven't developed for Xbian currently. I have been working on an rtl_sdr package but other than that family life keeps me occupied. If someone was to help pay for shipping I could receive a device in the US and ship it to one of the active developers such as CurlyMo or mk01.

thx m8, but as we discus in past about another attractive HW, to develop for a such needs at least one board for each developer as its not a work for one. so If they can provide 4+ boards than guys might get some interest.
Feel free to ask manufacturer what they say
(hope devs dont mind asking Wink )

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6th Dec, 2014, 01:28 AM
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(5th Dec, 2014 06:50 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Yep

Smile i though most of you were from the US.

As for the manufacturer request, i think the request period is over Sad
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6th Dec, 2014, 02:04 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(6th Dec, 2014 01:28 AM)Exnor Wrote:  
(5th Dec, 2014 06:50 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Yep

Smile i though most of you were from the US.

As for the manufacturer request, i think the request period is over Sad

all based on old continent m8 Big Grin , spread well over it Smile

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6th Dec, 2014, 02:39 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(6th Dec, 2014 02:04 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  
(6th Dec, 2014 01:28 AM)Exnor Wrote:  
(5th Dec, 2014 06:50 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Yep

Smile i though most of you were from the US.

As for the manufacturer request, i think the request period is over Sad

all based on old continent m8 Big Grin , spread well over it Smile

Nice to know... Not that i have anything against any other part of the planet.

So did you guys read the tech sheet on the CI20? What do you think about it?
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6th Dec, 2014, 11:22 AM
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Re: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
It doesn't impress me really. I have a pretty extensive history with MIPS hardware and it works fine (most routers are MIPS).

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7th Dec, 2014, 10:32 PM
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(6th Dec, 2014 11:22 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  It doesn't impress me really. I have a pretty extensive history with MIPS hardware and it works fine (most routers are MIPS).

So are these MIPS cores not on par with the ARM cores in terms of compute "power" ?
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8th Dec, 2014, 05:31 AM
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Re: RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
(7th Dec, 2014 10:32 PM)Exnor Wrote:  
(6th Dec, 2014 11:22 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  It doesn't impress me really. I have a pretty extensive history with MIPS hardware and it works fine (most routers are MIPS).

So are these MIPS cores not on par with the ARM cores in terms of compute "power" ?
Depends on the hardware, mghz to mghz I say MIPS generally performs in par with ARM but only in these latest MIPS SoC's.

Like my router
(7th Dec, 2014 10:32 PM)Exnor Wrote:  
(6th Dec, 2014 11:22 AM)f1vefour Wrote:  It doesn't impress me really. I have a pretty extensive history with MIPS hardware and it works fine (most routers are MIPS).

So are these MIPS cores not on par with the ARM cores in terms of compute "power" ?
Depends on the hardware, mghz to mghz I say MIPS generally performs close to par with ARM but only in these latest MIPS SoC's.

Like my router has a 533mhz Broadcom MIPS based SoC and it doesn't perform quite as well as a 533mhz ARM based SoC's.

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8th Dec, 2014, 05:44 AM
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RE: Any plans to port Xbian to the new CI20
what makes RPi a good choice for XBMC or multimedia is the GPU. thats where it excel

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