Hi,
I have a design for a basic SA110 / 21285 engine
(Strong ARM with PCI interface) left over from a project. I
would like to turn it into an "Open Hardware" thing where
the schematics, PCB design, FPGA designs are all on a CD.
What I need to know from the ARM Linux camp is what set of
IO devices should be included. I need to receive suggestion
on the ethernet component and video chipset. I have worked
with SMC 91C94 ethernet but I do not know if this is supported
in Linux.
For video a Chip & Tech 65545 will support CRT and LCD
displays. A high performance PCI chipset for VGA - XVGA
would be nice, can someone suggest.
How does Linux deal with a keyboard, must I use a 8042 based
keyboard controller or can Linux support the keyboard through
a more simple hardware interface. (I have done bit banged
AT keyboard code, it can be a real pain.)
Bob Kondner
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>
> At 10:21 AM 6/8/99 -0400, Gaixia Zhang wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I understand when you port Linux to StrongARM processor, you can use
> >EBSA-285/EBSA-110
> >Evaluation Board, But when you port Linux to computers based on ARM
> >processor (e.g., Acorn
> >RiscPC 600 with ARM 610 processor or Acorn RiscPC 700 with ARM 710
> >processor), Do you
> >also use some kind of ARM Development/Evaluation Board, or you directly
> >port it to the computer?
> >
> >Looking forward to hearing from you,
> >
> >Thanks a lot,
> >Zhang
> >
> >
>
> Zhang (et al),
>
> generally you need some readily available platform. These can be either
> real products (eg Psion 5) or, more usually with ARM processors, evaluation
> boards. Most silicon providers have evaluation boards for their products, hence
> EBSA285 (which we did when I was at Digital). ARM does itself have evaluation
> boards. The current ones are PID and AEB. There are a lot of PIDs around but
> they tend to be rather expensive for the general Linux community as there's not
> the volume and they are intended for development of processors/peripherals.
>
> ARM is working on more evaluation boards of varying function/price.
> Right now I'm porting Linux to one of them (a PCI based, multi-header flavour).
> That port will make it into the ARM Linux sources when I have enough running -
> right now I can see the PCI subsystem but cannot (quite) get the 21143 running....
>
> Alternatively, silicon vendors are working on more boards too, for example
>Intel.
>
> Dave
> >
> >
> >
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