Check out the Motorola MBX or EBX boards.  They have the MPC860 or MPC821 PowerPC
processors, IDE interfaces, ethernet, serial, parallel, pcmcia, etc and are very
cheap (for an embedded product) as well as having a small footprint.

Linux/PPC runs on these boards.  Checkout :

http://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/
http://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/embedded.html
http://www.linuxppc.org/
http://www.linuxppc.com/

Brendan Simon.




"Ryan R. Henry" wrote:

> Hello everyone!  I'm starting to design an mp3 player for use in a
> car/truck/etc, and would like to use linux for it.  However, putting a regular
> computer in my van wouldn't really work, and most computers aren't made to
> operate in those conditions, so I started looking into some sort of embedded
> system.
>
> Basically I'm looking for a way to hook up an IDE cdrom drive to a board that
> has linux either in rom or some type of rugged disk (no moving parts), and will
> allow me to use another port to transmit data to a small LCD display and read a
> few push buttons.
>
> Could anyone get me started here?
>
> Ryan Henry
> ---
> Wrong on most accounts.  const Foo *foo; and Foo const *foo; mean the same: foo
> being a pointer to const Foo.  const Foo const *foo; would mean the same but is
> illegal (double const).  You are confusing this with Foo * const foo; and const
> Foo * const foo; respectively. -David Kastrup, comp.os.linux.development.system
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