BeagleBoard "production disrupted"

[ninevoltz]

Hi,

I just contacted customer support at Digikey, and they told me that
production of the BeagleBoard has been "disrupted" and they have not
been informed as to why or when it will resume. So I'm asking here,
what's going on with it? I would like to buy one to tinker with. Is
this yet another casualty of "the economy"? Atmel seems to be having
the same "disruption" with their supplier as well. Disruption meaning
Flextronics Östersund going out of business.

What's the deal?

[Jason Kridner]

This issue was that there were some issues seen as USB EHCI port
failures under some conditions that have been reported on the mailing
list by a small percentage of users. We created a screen for the
issue (that currently takes a long time to run) and that slowed
production down for a while. Some help from the community in
improving the test case would help speed up production. I'll get back
with details on the current test case.

It is currently suspected that enabling re-tuning of the PLL at run-
time in the kernel might resolve the issue, but that code hasn't been
implemented yet and we don't want people to get stuck with boards that
have intermittent failures or fail under certain conditions. Help in
implementing that code would also be helpful. More details to follow
on that as well.

[Gerald Coley]

However, as DigiKey is fully aware production has indeed resumed and we are shipping boards to them. We shipped 250 this week and expect 250 next weeks as well. After that the quantities should be increasing. We were also delyed bu the PCBs arriving late which cost us an addtional week.

 

Again, we are shipping boards.

 

Gerald

[Vladimir Pantelic]

http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/e38c0e5f37069976/fea655f4434c8bf1?lnk=raot

[Will]

I ordered my BB from Digi-Key on July 8th and still no shipment and no
projected shipment date from Digi-Key when I talked to them today.
This is worse than Christmas. Does anyone know if I'll get this by
the second week of August? I will be at the bottom of the earth for
two months with no chance of receiving mail and was hoping to have a
BB to play around with when I go.

[Kiam Peng Wee]

how about someone hook up a beagleboard on the net and let you play with it? :>

KP

[Gerald Coley]

It is up to DigiKey to determine who gets which boards by when. We will ship 330 today and 300 next Friday. Depending on your shipping method, I can perceive of you getting your board the second week of August. BUT, that is all in the hands of DigiKey and where you are on the lsit.

 

Gerald