[ale] [OT] - Raspberry Pi 2

[jkinney at jimkinney.us (Jim Kinney)]

hardware heads should be trouncing all over this this already but the
RP2 is available today. It uses the same video as earlier but now has a
quad-core arm7 cpu and 1G RAM.

  !!!

Adafruit.com ($44.95) is slammed and sold out already.

The Raspberry Pi 2 delivers 6 times the processing capacity of previous
models. This second generation Raspberry Pi has an upgraded Broadcom
BCM2836 processor, which is a powerful ARM Cortex-A7 based quad-core
processor that runs at 900MHz. The board also features an increase in
memory capacity to 1Gbyte.

      * Broadcom BCM2836 SoC
      * Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
      * 900 MHz
      * Dual Core VideoCore IV? Multimedia Co-Processor
      * Provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and
        1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
      * Capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture
        filtering and DMA infrastructure
      * 1GB LPDDR2
      * Boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux
        operating system 85 x 56 x 17mm
      * Micro USB socket 5V, 2A