That took for ever boot, and the screen update was well slow, guessing this because relevant drivers not optimized for the board yet.
If the time difference between other hardware release videos and actually release is anything to go by, this could be a year before sam version is released
it's early days, but the thing will fly once completed. OS4 is brilliantly fast on that little board, especially the development builds i got to play with at amiwest this year, so i'm sure MOS will be equally as fast, if not faster.
does anyone know if the MOS version for the SAM will support the onboard SM502, or will it require a R200 video board? and what about sound: will it support the SM502 or need a third-party sound card? if it were up to me, i'd skip bothering with the SM502 -- slow and poor documentation. nearly everyone who already has one of these machines uses another video card, albeit a radeon HD card. with u-boot being updated to support PCIe-to-PCI bridges, there's really no need to futz with the siliconmotion chip.
who's working on the port, by the way? is it just frank or are others involved?
-- eliyahu