On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:52:23AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > During this time I was reading through the documentation and realized > > there's just an ARM7 processor on the device. I know that some of the > > linksys devices have one of those other broken unix variant running on them, > > so would it ever be likely we'd see a port to one of these simple devices > > for OpenBSD? > > Obviously I don't speak for developers, but I'm not sure a device with > a processor which looks around 10% the speed of a Zaurus, 8mb RAM, and > undocumented wireless nic is going to be interesting enough to warrant > the time a port takes..(read the slides about the Zaurus port for some > information about what's involved in porting to a new machine, it is a > lot of work: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf). > > Looks like it needs very fine soldering skills just to attach a serial > port: http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/SamSung4510 >
If anyone knows about an ARM 11 based device that has reasonable IO: network, disk options (CF or better), minipci, ... The developers would be quite interested in finding out about such a device. Dale Rahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
