The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 21, 2017 1:31 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Standard Linux distros like Fedora/Debian can't run on the Intel Edison due to CPU bugs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug

I guess that is why the article links to a Debian derivative rather than Debian.

The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 21, 2017 1:33 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Looks like that probably doesn't apply to the second version though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Edison

The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 21, 2017 9:21 UTC (Tue) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link] (2 responses)

You're not even linking to an article about Edison. Edison uses a different (Silvermont; 22nm) CPU than Quark (Lakemont; 32nm); some quick googling shows that there are plenty of people who have managed to bootstrap Debian on Edison.

The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 21, 2017 9:42 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

The first version of Intel Edison used a Quark CPU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Edison

The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 22, 2017 14:59 UTC (Wed) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

The first version was, TTBOMK, never available for purchase. The specs changed after the first announcement.

The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 23, 2017 9:15 UTC (Thu) by felipebalbi (subscriber, #56613) [Link]

I'm running today's u-boot with today's mainline linux with Debian on an external SD card. My SD card is fast enough:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=file.bin bs=256k count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 17.0078 s, 15.8 MB/s

# dd if=file.bin of=/dev/null bs=256k iflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB, 256 MiB) copied, 13.0254 s, 20.6 MB/s

I really don't need any more than that for my testing. Could it be better? Hell yeah!

USB is also acceptably fast. Here's a mass storage using RAM as backing store (remember Edison is HighSpeed only):

$ msc -t 0 -o /dev/sde -s 1M -c 1024 -n
test 0: sent 1.00 GB read 45.23 MB/s write 43.29 MB/s