Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-29 Thread microbit
Hi, Nope, I don't work for TI :-) I did consult as third party vendor RF/MSP430 for TI DRAD (Digital Radio) division in Dallas, TX and MSP430 HQ, Freising, Germany for several years. (I'm in Melbourne, Australia however) Actually, I'm still listed as endorsed 3rd party but I'm not much active anym

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-29 Thread microbit
Hi Chris, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance (ARM7), Nintendo DS/ DS Lite (ARM7 + ARM9) to name a few.. (I _did_ elucidate *portable* devices ) B rgds Kris On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:52:04 +0200, Chris Gray wrote: > On Saturday 29 August 2009 10:08:09 micro...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don'

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-29 Thread Greg Holdren
Chris Gray wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2009 10:08:09 micro...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote: Hi, I don't know about Video set top box, but just about any other device is ARM. This includes PMP, gaming consoles,and the massive Cellular market. Darn, I should stay out of this kind of discussio

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-29 Thread Jim Donelson
xbox, ps3 and wii all use versions of Power PC. However many portable devices do use ARM. Iphone uses a Samsung arm. most likely Motorola phones use freescale arm processors. G1 uses a qualcomm processor. Panasonic has it's own arm. Most low end routers use Broadcom chips. High end routers use Fre

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-29 Thread Chris Gray
On Saturday 29 August 2009 10:08:09 micro...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know about Video set top box, but just about any other device is > ARM. This includes PMP, gaming consoles,and the massive Cellular market. Darn, I should stay out of this kind of discussion but: What gam

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-29 Thread microbit
Hi, I don't know about Video set top box, but just about any other device is ARM. This includes PMP, gaming consoles,and the massive Cellular market. In the cellular market TI also has that prettty much cornered. About 9 out of 10 mobiles have custom TI DSP silicon integrated into it one way or an

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Jamie Lokier
micro...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote: > Just about any consumer device today has ARM in it. Last I heard, most video set top boxes / PVRs have MIPs inside. MIPS seems to be popular in home routers routers too. -- Jamie ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uCli

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Donelson
I just ordered a FON, to use with dd-wrt. I use them in client mode to hook up stuff around the house. I have use Linksys and Buffalo, but for 30.00 this is great! Any one know what tool chain is the best for this MIPS? On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Chris Gray wrote: > On Friday 28 August 20

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Chris Gray
On Friday 28 August 2009 19:11:23 Steven King wrote: > another choice would be a linksys wrt54gl. That's what I was going to suggest - it's the platform we first used when porting the Mika VM to MIPS, and it must be the cheapest development system we bought so far. Take a look at the list of ha

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Joseph Stewart
This is a most excellent choice! No porting work required! The tomato client is friendly for ssh/telnet and allows installing ipkgs very easily. Thanks for the reminder! -joe On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Steven King wrote: > On Friday 28 August 2009 09:19:34 tom gogh wrote: > > I searched

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Steven King
On Friday 28 August 2009 09:19:34 tom gogh wrote: > I searched for Fonera router and it's not available in my country (India) > as per the fonera website. I will check about Sony Playstation if old ones > are available around my place. I will prefer with mmu so I can even use > other distributions

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread tom gogh
ewart wrote: > From: Joseph Stewart > Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board > To: "uClinux development list" > Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 10:57 AM > You might also consider an original Sony > Playstation, as it is available cheap, has &q

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Donelson
blackfin is not that cheap, but they have super (free) support. You should also consider level of support. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Joseph Stewart wrote: > You might also consider an original Sony Playstation, as it is available > cheap, has "good" I/O capability (video/game control

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Joseph Stewart
You might also consider an original Sony Playstation, as it is available cheap, has "good" I/O capability (video/game controllers/sound), and has a low-speed, non-MMU MIPS processor, not to mention various emulators that would ease debugging. -joe 2009/8/28 Timothée Manaud > > If you realy need

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Timothée Manaud
If you realy need a MIPS arch, the Fonera is realy cheap (30$) and has serial, ethernet and JTAG available. Timothée. On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:05:01 +1000, wrote: > I wonder too why MIPS ? > IMO ARM is your best bet nowadays, ARM is more and more breaking through > even into 8 bit apps where > eg

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread tom gogh
Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board > To: "uClinux development list" > Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 10:05 AM > I wonder too why MIPS ? > IMO ARM is your best bet nowadays, ARM is more and more > breaking through > even into 8 bit apps where > eg.

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread microbit
I wonder too why MIPS ? IMO ARM is your best bet nowadays, ARM is more and more breaking through even into 8 bit apps where eg. deeply embedded Cortex now runs. Just about any consumer device today has ARM in it. I reckon that soon ARM experience will be a must for engineers. If you want ARM, Olim

Re: [uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Donelson
Not familar with MIPS boards, but I highly recommend you get one with an Ethernet port for development. Just wondering, why does it need to be MIPS? On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:31 AM, tom gogh wrote: > Hi everyone, > can anyone recommend any good development board/starter kit for MIPS. > I a

[uClinux-dev] starter kit or development board

2009-08-28 Thread tom gogh
Hi everyone, can anyone recommend any good development board/starter kit for MIPS. I am looking for cheap option, to port uclinux as a hobby project. How folks on this mailing list get development boards? What sources do you track? Thanks, Anand ___