Earlier this year, ARM’s Linaro created 96Boards.org.
The 96Boards initiative is designed to offer a single software and hardware community across multiple vendor boards supporting a range of different features. A fixed set of minimum functions including USB, SD, HDMI and standardized low speed and high speed peripheral connectors are provided. Vendors may add customized hardware and feature sets provided the minimum functions are available. We expect this to extend the platform life, increase the market for add-on hardware, and accelerate open source upstreaming of support for new SoC features. The 96Boards standard specification and this website are maintained by the Linaro Community Board Group (LCG). Linaro is a collaborative software engineering organization focused on the ARM architecture. Corporate members of Linaro provide funding and engineers plus direction through various steering committees and resources are split into semi-autonomous groups with their own members.
There are currently two 96Boards specifications for low-cost ARMv7-A and ARMv8-A development boards:
* The Consumer Edition (CE) targets the mobile, embedded and digital home segments.
* The Enterprise Edition (EE) targets the networking and server segments.
They have 3 boards listed currently:
* DragonBoard 410c: Board based on Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 410 processor
* The HiKey Board: Board based on HiSilicon Kirin 6220 processor
* 96Boards UART Serial Adapter: a USB to UART interface to be used with any 96Boards Consumer or Enterprise Edition board.
https://www.96boards.org/ce-specification
https://www.96boards.org/ee-specification
https://www.96boards.org/products/
Marcin Juszkiewicz has a good blog post on 96boards as well:
http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2015/06/26/96boards-goes-enterprise/
ARM Devices has a video discussing adding 96boards hardware targets to LAVA, the CI server by Linaro for embedded device testing.
http://armdevices.net/2015/02/18/lava-lab-to-integrate-hikey-from-96boards-org/
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