-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 >I've read something about running Mono on ARM processors and got >quite interested in development of embedded devices.
I do a lot of embedded work in C, but I haven't tried to use Mono in that space yet. I normally use the smaller Arm7 and Cortex M3 chips that can't run linux. They either don't have an OS, or else they have something light like FreeRTOS. However, I've been extremely impressed with a recent board that does run linux, and it has a powerful AVR32 chip. This is perhaps the cheapest embedded board that runs linux and is well supported. I can't speak to the difficulty in making Mono work on it, though, since it's not an Arm9: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/view_detail.asp?FileName=AVR32NGKit_3_ 26.html&family_id=682 If you want a true Arm9 processor, Atmel has these dev boards but they cost a lot more: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3820 http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4057 Olimex is a well known and trusted source for much cheaper boards. They've got some Cirrus Logic Arm9's and some Atmel SAM9's: http://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html (then click on Arm on the left) You can google the MicroFramework to see what Microsoft is doing in the "deeply embedded" market lately. The deeply embedded market typically doesn't have an OS, but the MicroFramework becomes the OS of these devices. I personally don't care for this implementation because you have to buy specific hardware and you can't roll your own. The MicroFramework is one level under the Compact Framework which sits on top of Windows CE. Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Universal 2.6.2 Charset: us-ascii wsBVAwUBRvgAN8hfyUs+le7yAQh6wwgAhou8CPNI5+fzOWYVETsc9Lo87WQcP+IH MpJf7Dp73tkHnb+AABoqj+za+HPPcKb5KqcMUbtLYsptnYozRWQaVfQVEPEIf7Az ZteUHAhmnJlu6IKc22cfJCETRp+5tRWd0TD9kDCcmp6qtMD7scF/J5es/JlKPu+p Ytpw5ThlamBpIyjAIAKTWSHItqyLTrAz+5ybFU1sHSJ7E53mL7h+f1d+KF0nnLHT R3yOyVYyX4xCKrh1ev2IN2nS1HX7Se3HT6638Ri5n4F+zXPYEwTx85080wXPiyyc +s1NJMVZu43f5HLG0IWJnqIg2/oeBgFqoeewRRFSrdfk6xVKNPvLtQ== =ju7W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
