Be it ARM, XScale, PowerPC, MIPS or any other kinda chip?
How difficult is it to design a small prototype board that can boot an off the shelf embedded linux distro? Its been something I've been meaning to try but don't have enough info on how to go about it.
Where does one begin? And how does a person build and mount these chips onto the board when many of these chips are all BGA format?
Questions questions everywhere and not a drop to drink!
Hi
As a electronic hobbyist I have designed two prototypes using Renesas SH3-processor. As the 2.6-kernel already supported above mentioned processor, it was quite straightforward. I designed the board with two CF-connectors so that I could use CF-cards as filesystem and I still have another slot for WLAN or GPRS. As memory I use normal SDRAM.
risto
By "off the shelf" do you mean precompiled, working binary for the on-board peripherals? You're welcome to buy our Omniflash board....
If you buy a board you get a schematic. The kernel is precompiled and running on the shipped board. GPL source and binary images and configured GCC development enviroment are included with the development kit and are available separately for a small distribution fee.
You can take the schematic and the software and build whatever you want. And compare your prototype's behavior to a working board. The design does not use BGA chips. Just please don't ask for a bunch of free tech support to get your board going. And no, you can't have a free schematic. The cost of a dev kit is our minimum "license fee" for the hardware design and IMHO it's a pretty good bargain.
vorange ha scritto:
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Emanuele
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