Hi all, On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 20:25 +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:28:25PM +0100, Philippe De Swert wrote: > > I have seen this, which looks pretty interesting and is not to expensive: > > http://www.gumstix.com/ > > > > Of course I wonder about the level of support we can get in case if troubles. > > If anybody has experience with this one let me know. > > What support would you like ? > > * support on the PCB is not very much required once it is validated that > the PCB is correctly designed. This is my biggest concern as it is very unclear if we can have the schematics.... > * support on the chips, you can try to get from the Si manufacturers. If > you really have a point, there is fair chance that Intel and co will > listen to this list. But the issues on pxa255 are farily well > understood by now. New design of that type are usin ghte pxa270. Indeed this chip is already well known and the toolchains have been extensively tested with it. > * support on SW issues ... the joined knowledge on this list is greater > than what you could get from most SW houses ... Indeed, or at least I hope so :-) > What is the remaining problem then ? If it is the price (109 USD = 80 > EURO), you might consider co-sponsoring a design and then trying to get > it manufactured at lower prices ? I doubt how much lower you could get. I think the price is certainly correct... > I think it would be really nice is to add some low-end FPGA on it > (5 or 10 USD) to allow simple HW extenstions or accelerations. Well I could suggest it to the people making it. A very nice thought... regards, Philippe -- | Philippe De Swert | | Stag developer http://stag.mind.be/ | Emdebian developer: http://www.emdebian.org | | Please do not send me documents in a closed format. (*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.ps,*.html,*.txt) | Why? http://pallieter.is-a-geek.org:7832/~johan/word/english/
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