Hardkernel ODROID-C1 and later ODROID-C1+ boards, both based on Amlogic S805 SoC, have been a popular alternatives to Raspberry Pi 2 board this year. But now that Amlogic S905 quad core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 processor has been available for a few months, people have been wondering whether the Korean company would launch an Amlogic S905 board, and it looks like ODROID-C2 might not be too far off based on firmware files on odroid.in website.
The firmware includes a device tree file, which combined with other files give some clues about ODROID-C2 specifications:
- SoC – Amlogic S905 quad core Cortex A53 processor @ up to 2.0 GHz with penta-core (3+2) Mali-450MP GPU
- System Memory – 1GB RAM (in doc), 2GB RAM (in Device tree)
- Storage – 1x micro SD card
- Video Output – 1x HDMI out
- USB – 1x USB hub, 1x USB OTG
I don’t have much more information about the platform.
You can also find some ODROID-C2 or “odroidc2” references it in the latest Amlogic buildroot, and for example to build a bootable image based on Linux 3.14.29 for ODROID-C2, you can run:
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make mesongxb_amlogic_odroidc2_release_defconfig make |
I guess we’ll have to wait a little longer to find out exactly whether ODROID-C2 is based on the same form factor as ODROID-C1+ board, or closer to ODROID-C0 concept. If you’ve been trying to run Linux on Amlogic S905 devices, using the latest kernel may help fixed some of the issues we’ve had in the past. I have not tried it yet.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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