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On 2010-08-02 Mon 20:23, wireless wrote: |
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> Interesting..... The are using a OMAP 3530 (Cortex A8) core |
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> Neon SIMD coprocessor, TMS320C64 DSP and a SGX 530 2d/3d |
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> video chip. with a 3.5 inch resistive touch LCD (QVGA). |
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Yeah, the device is sort of like a Beagleboard with a LCD and several |
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more input options. However, there are several other hardware |
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differences such as we don't use the TWL4030 chip that the beagle uses |
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for power management, I2C, etc. |
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> Somebody should approach these folks and do some serious 'birds of a |
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> feather' type of sales pitch. It'd sure be very cool to get a big |
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> university hooked on embedded Gentoo, ARM style, methinks......... |
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I agree. However, Intel is also a major player at OSU and so they want |
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us to stick an Atom in our next major hardware design. We'll have to see |
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how things turn out for the next hardware rev. |
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Also, most of the software repos for the OSWALD are available at [1] if |
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anyone's interested and hasn't found them yet. |
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Tim |
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[1] https://code.oregonstate.edu/git |
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