On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:02 PM, J dog <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looks like to me the AM572X has a lot of the same CPU and GPU components as
> the Maligned and dropped OMAP 5.  As it says Android is fully supported also
> which was going to be OMAP 5's forte.    Not a bad thing,  I'm glad T.I. is
> keeping it around even if its under a different guise.

Well, the omap5 wasn't 100% dropped...

https://www.isee.biz/products/igep-processor-boards/igepv5-omap5432

The PandaBoard 5 that was to be, ended up as the omap5_uevm:

https://www.svtronics.com/5432

You can still see the head of the "panda" silk-screened on the first
page of this document:

https://www.svtronics.com/index.php?route=product/download&product_document_id=309&product_id=33

(under the Texas Instruments paint edit..)

So while pandaboard community died, the panda 5 lived on..

But yeah, the am57xx shares many things with the omap54xx

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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