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Re: Embedded StrongArm Products [Correction]

From: Mark Willey <willey@keymaster.etla.net>
Date: Thu Jul 30 15:06:51 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

I hate to sound like a broken record, but ARM-based machines are supported
by NetBSD, however.  Likely you'd need to do some hacking for this
particular design, but the port is there.

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm32/index.html

Mark

R. Paul McCarty <rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu> wrote:
: I made a mistake about this.  These aren't StrongARM embedded cpus,
: they're ARM processors, which are not supported by linux.

: Sorry about that.

: -Paul

: R. Paul McCarty wrote:
:> 
:> I just found a company (ADS) that manufactures StrongArm Embedded
:> boards.  Not fully features like the SuperMOPS PC/104 boards, and I'm
:> not sure if the StrongARM chips they are using have been tested with the
:> Linux port to ARM, but they look pretty nice, and they appear to be
:> fairly inexpensive (starting at $200/each).  Biggest drawback is they
:> don't offer any storage mechanism (no ide or scsi bus, although they
:> mention scsi) and there isn't any keyboard or mouse input mentioned.
:> 
:>   http://www.flatpanels.com/
:> 
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