Re: Good ARM board for Debian?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi again, all,
>
> Well, it looks like for several reasons the RaspberryPi won't work for this
> project.  Can anyone recommend other ARM-based boards which run Wheezy well?
>
> This is going to be a used as a monitor/controller, so major speed isn't a
> factor.  It will mainly be using SPI and GPIO ports, plus ethernet for
> communications.  Other things like graphics, USB ports, etc. are not
> important for this project (but their presence doesn't rule the board out).

 from the specs you've given then something like an ARM Cortex
M0/M3/M4 would do.  one of the higher-end STM32Fs for example - those
have ethernet and they're amazingly low-power and very cheap.  i got a
waveshare port103R but apparently the 107R has an ethernet MAC.
http://www.wvshare.com/product/Port107V.htm  although, looking around
there's actually an SPI ethernet board
http://www.wvshare.com/product/ENC28J60-Ethernet-Board.htm

 so for $21 you could get the port103r and an extra $10 you get an
SPI-to-Ethernet adapter.

 but no, these won't run debian, but they _do_ have the advantage that
if you were to make this a production item (rather than a one-off)
you'd be looking at postage-stamp-sized PCBs almost.

l.