Snowball (single-board computer) explained

Snowball
Manuf1:	ST-Ericsson
Designfirm:	ST-Ericsson
Manufacturer:	CALAO Systems
Type:	Single-board computer
Processor:	Dual Cortex-A9
Coprocessor:	Mali-400 MP
Dimensions:	Nano-ITX

The Snowball is a Nano-ITX-form factor single-board computer using the NovaThor A9500.^[1]

The Linux-based mobile operating system Tizen was ported to Snowball in early 2012.^[2]

The Snowball had a public support site at igloocommunity.org,^[3] but since support for the board has been withdrawn, the tools are archived at GitHub: https://github.com/igloocommunity

One of the many builds released by Linaro is located here This is build: 13.05 (May 2013). At the link are the binaries that were built, the instructions for using the binaries and instructions for building everything from source.

Notes and References

1. http://www.igloocommunity.org/ Snowball is a low power, low cost Single Board Computer based on the ST-Ericsson Nova A9500 processor (Dual Cortex A9 + Mali 400 GPU)
2. Web site: Tizen 1.0 Larkspur on Snowball. Tizen Talk. https://web.archive.org/web/20120601212424/http://tizentalk.com/2012/05/tizen-1-0-larkspur-on-snowball/. 2012-06-01. 2018-05-01.
3. Web site: Developer's Igloo. ST-Ericsson. https://web.archive.org/web/20130607204534/http://igloocommunity.org/. 2013-06-07. 2014-10-13.