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Ed W wrote: |
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> Can you educate the ignorant on what kind of problems I might be |
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> about to run into if I'm using a geode for my next project (Alix)? |
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I have great experience from using ALIX boards in various projects, |
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and I also know them well hardware-wise from work in the coreboot |
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project. |
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I think they're really good value for money, and they can be set up |
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in cute little boxes. |
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The Geode is really a non-PCI architecture, which uses some tricks in |
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order to implement a PCI bus. It's PCI compliant, but some functions |
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are virtualized using system management mode. This means that you may |
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not be able to rely on very precise timing in the system, if you're |
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planning on running a RTOS. |
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Other than that there's not much. They work well for me. There's also |
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a blog or two with some posts about adding various little board bits |
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into a Gentoo system. |
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http://www.twam.info/linux/gentoo/installing-gentoo-on-alix3d3 |
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(There are more articles. See http://www.twam.info/tag/alix3d3) |
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//Peter |
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