Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread DJ Delorie
What kind of OS are you developing? Er, not. The idea was to put peripherals on that were useful for people who *were* developing an OS, as opposed to the standard offerings which target embedded use (motor control, appliances, etc). After all, today's embedded MCUs are more powerful than

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread Dave McGuire
On 11/8/10 4:16 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: The idea was to put peripherals on that were useful for people who *were* developing an OS, as opposed to the standard offerings which target embedded use (motor control, appliances, etc). After all, today's embedded MCUs are more powerful than yesterday's

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread DJ Delorie
At the moment, my board is running FreeRTOS when it runs an OS at all. Oooh. WANT! Want FreeRTOS? Or one of these boards? (also see http://www.renesasrulz.com/community/rx-contest - although that board is 3x bigger and has no sdram, dvi, or ps/2) I have three more blanks, but they

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread Dave McGuire
On 11/8/10 5:05 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: At the moment, my board is running FreeRTOS when it runs an OS at all. Oooh. WANT! Want FreeRTOS? Or one of these boards? One of those boards. I run lots of FreeRTOS. (ARM7, Philips LPC2xxx) I have three more blanks, but they run about $135

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread Ben Jackson
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:05:37PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: For my second RX project, I was thinking of a board with an ethernet switch chip (the RX has MII) Broadcom makes some really nice, fully integrated switch chips which would be perfect for this application. You can (optionally) hang

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Want FreeRTOS? Or one of these boards? One of those boards. I run lots of FreeRTOS. (ARM7, Philips LPC2xxx) I'll keep that in mind. Other minor peripherals: Consumer IR (tv remote) receiver, Eh...lots of stuff has IR but nothing ever seems to use it. ;) I had a few pins

Re: gEDA-user: gRX OS board

2010-11-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Broadcom makes some really nice, fully integrated switch chips Micrel has a full line of similar chips - five ports, one MII and the rest PHY, plus SPI. Digikey stocks them. Unfortunately I doubt a one-man shop can get the time of day from BCM and they keep their docs locked up like a