http://www.osnews.com/story/15624/Flexible_ARM9_SBC_Boots_Linux_in_1_69_Seconds Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:26:15 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?155987 http://osnews.com/thread?155987 at 128MB SDRAM it is enough to run fvwm and dillo!!!
The reprogrammable FPGA can be used as a cryptographic accelerator. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?155993 http://osnews.com/thread?155993 I'm using the TS-7200 and TS-7250 in projects and you can't beat the boards for the price.

I'm sure the TS-7300 will be a nice board as well.

There's an active yahoo mailing list for the ts7200 and there's a 2.6 port available, as well as NetBSD. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?155994 http://osnews.com/thread?155994 What is the price? Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?156002 http://osnews.com/thread?156002 Technologic has the price list for their parts on line.

For the TS7200 it's at http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts7200-spec-p.php

Replace the '7200' in the url with the model number for the others.

I've got a TS-7250 with a USB external hard drive attached to it that, just for giggles, I've self-hosted NetBSD on. It takes it a week to build all of NetBSD from source, but it does manage. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?156123 http://osnews.com/thread?156123 targets for RISCOS if it will be opensourced. Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?156140 http://osnews.com/thread?156140 This is why you want to cross-compile it from a faster machine and cut it down to less than 2 hours

See http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-build.html for details.

I use my iMac G5 to build NetBSD's userland & kernel for my Cobalt Qube2. It's over 60 times faster at compiling the sources. Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Francis85) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?156176 http://osnews.com/thread?156176 There are two reasons to self-host. One is that it used to be the traditional milestone that declared a Unix port to a new machine "finished", and the other is that it's a great stress test for the hardware that it exercises.

But yes, the speed difference is why I only did the self host "for giggles." Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments