From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F30Yp-0001Yf-Tn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:36:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0T0aEKo001916; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:36:14 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-03.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.5.133]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0T0aDUl005639 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:36:14 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.23] (buffer.net [24.73.161.102]) by ms-smtp-03.tampabay.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0T0aCuC009459; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:36:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43DBBDF8.2050901@tampabay.rr.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:54:48 +0000 From: wireless User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051215 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] new ARM920T based computer design (EP9315) References: <200601272042.14245.liquidcable@bulah.com> In-Reply-To: <200601272042.14245.liquidcable@bulah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 1d53b608-11f6-4b07-9500-36d95377a6ff X-Archives-Hash: 84bacdcbe05dcd04afc153bbe7bd252c Heath Holcomb wrote: > I'm a hardware engineer (BS in Electronics Engineering, Texas A&M) and I did > the x86 how-to for embedded gentoo. I've got a new project at my work, to > design a ARM based SBC (single board computer) for our main product. I'll > actually be doing the schematic entry and PCB layout. > > The specific part is Cirrus Logic EP9315, it's an ARM920T based chip. It has > the SDRAM interface, flash interface (NOR), MAC (not PHY), and an MMU. > > Any advice on this chip or any ARM would be nice. I plan on use embedded > Gentoo as the base of our OS. The development board comes with CE 5.0 and > Linux (Debian based). There is a lot of unknowns (how does Linux fit onto > the NOR flash, what about the file system, etc...), so any help would be > appreciated if anyone has done this before. > > I'll also be adding a section to the how-to that deals with ARM based devices. JTAG is always nice. SD/SmartMedia/CompactFlash is cool. What's the specific purpose of the board? What kind of product, or just an embedded board to sell to others? James -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list