Hi List
This is just an informal inquirery, as to your knowlegde of
lowpower-small-footprint-devices capapel of running RT-Linux...
A friend and myself, have been kicking around some applications-ideas jeust
for fun, and we recently started looking for a hardware-platform for them.
If we want some communications-interface, and IP/TCP-stack I argued that
RT-linux was ideal - none the less that it migth be owerkill for some of the
applications :-).
So I started looking at PC104 and singlebooardscomputers, but didnt find any
boards that are near the pricerange of a dumpster-PC [Firms throw them away
you know].
But they take up to much space, and use to much power.
The top chips are:
1. ZFx86 [New chip - no commercial board found - www.zflinux.com]
2. ELAN [Low power AMD]
3. Crusoe [Transmeta]
4. Old Mobile chips from Intel
The ZFx86 looks very promising - does anyone on the list have any experience
with it?
Does it even run RT-Linux?
It has a clockchip built in - which as far as I understand is very
important to the achievable RT-performance: "Software compatible with the
DS1287 and MC146818"
Does that mean anything to you guys [in terms of RT-perfomance that is]?
I must admit that I bought right into their marketing-buzz, but I havent
found any hardware like it. What would you recommend in terms of:
0. price
1. space
2. power
3. performance
Should it even be a x86?
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