On 22/07/12 06:42, Mike Thompson wrote: > Does anyone know of a single chip ARM based solution that is capable > of running a very minimal install of Debian Wheezy armel? Perhaps a > <100MHz armv4/v5 chip with onboard flash, 4/8/16/32 MB ram and a > single USB peripheral port. A bonus would be a TQFP package that can > be hand soldered to aid with prototyping. If a single chip solution > is not available (I couldn't find one with Google), what about a two > or three chip solution? I don't think you'll get any single-chip solutions with that much RAM --- most of the microcontrollers I've found top out in the 100s of kilobytes of internal RAM. If you're willing to go for a two-chip solution with external SDRAM, Atmel do a whole bunch of ARM-based microcontrollers: http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/default.aspx The higher-end ones advertise Linux support, too. Running Debian on 32MB is a bit cramped but if you're careful it works fine --- I used Debian on an NSLU2 for years. But I had swap. A cut-down distro like SlugOS or OpenWRT is probably better for your purposes. -- ┌─── dg@cowlark.com ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } │ --- Conway's Game Of Life, in one line of APL
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