Somebody knows when Beagle-Board-xM will be available for selling?
I'm waiting for a long time to buy this board.
If anyone knows when it will be available at DigiKey or in any other
site that delivers for Brazil, please notify me.
Sure. We have been shipping them for over a month now. International shipments had a paperwork snag, but that has been solved. The next batch of boards will be going out in about a week. We plan to ship 2000 boards in October. I suggest that you subscribe to the mailing list to keep up with the latest happenings.
Speaking as a mere mailing list member -- remember that this is a very active list. I keep all the emails that come in because they can be valuable research tools.
I run the manufacturing operation for beagleboard.org. I would not have told you they were shipping if I weren’t sure. They have boards. Another batch went out this week.
The list has not been updated because links have not yet been provided by the distributors to their direct buy page, despite the fact that we have asked for them. When we get those links taking the buyer directly to their buy page, we will update the site.
No definite plans right now. We will wait and see how the -xM progresses. We have orders for 8000 boards, so we need to fill those first which should be done by Q1 of 2011.
The same kernel runs on both. The processors are both CortexA8 processors. The MLO and UBoot for the -xM will run on the C4. The -xM is fully supported.
I haven’t tested mainline in a while and suspect some patches are required. Check out http://gitorious.org/beagleboard-validation and look at the kernel. It is high on the priorities to start submitting the required patches to mainline. The OMAP3630 detection/clocking/startup is all good in the mainline for use on DM3730, but a handful of board-level deltas are likely required.