Compatibility with UpBoards

[biff]

Hi, im looking to use this board in a project, but due to processing requirements, i might have to move to an Upboard.
http://up-shop.org/up-boards/44-up-boar ... -emmc.html
http://www.up-board.org/up/specifications/

It has a compatible RPi header so it should fit just fine and be pin compatible, but what would I have to do to get it running on a non rasbian distro? Is it even possible?

[flatmax]

Hi,

So a good start, the GPIO header is compatible with the PI.
Do you have a link to the Linux src used to build these systems ?

thanks
Matt

[biff]

Thanks Matt,
I am currently running a full install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
They do offer Ubilinux but I don't think that is open source.
https://up-community.org/downloads/category/15-up

[flatmax]

You know, it would probably be best for me to get an upboard and make it compatable.... hmm, whats the best way to do that ?

Matt

[biff]

Hi Matt,
They have an online store http://up-shop.org/4-up-boards but im not sure where they ship to.
I only have 1 so I cant really send that away at this point, but im happy to help debug anything I can remotely.

[flatmax]

Do you know if the chips are the same on these boards ? Would the cheaper boards use the same software as the more expensive boards ?

Matt

[biff]

The regular UPs are all the same apart from ram and hdd sizes.
The UP Squared uses Pentium and Celeron, the regular UP board uses an Atom.

[flatmax]

OK - I just ordered an up board !

I don't know where I am going to find the time to make this work - but lets see

Matt

[suberimakuri]

This is pretty cool, something to be said for the grunt.... and usability of x86 software.

[biff]

Yeh, its a good board for when the Raspberry Pi runs out of umph. And it doesnt us an SD card so that has benefits for stability, and lack of corrupted SDs