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> Being as I work for Genesi (see my sig) I have a debug board, when I |
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> need it (technically I don't since I had to give mine up but if I |
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> needed to I could get one from someone else in the company) worst case |
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> scenario, if something bad happens I can boot from an SD card and fix |
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> it. |
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Um that's good to know. sorry for being un_observant.... |
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> I use wifi on the smartbook, but the default config for the 2.6.31 |
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> kernel in use has support for all usb->ethernet devices. |
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Good to know |
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> I thought there was one floating around somewhere. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4&chap=8 |
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Not my day for astute observations..... |
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> Being as our company uses Freescale chips, I'm looking forward to the |
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> mx6, although it will probably be a while before anything comes out in |
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> the consumer space based on it. Quad core will be nice. |
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Yep, very cool. Know what would be keen? |
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Put a Jtag connection to the outside case for experimenters |
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to use, as well as any extra Digital or Analog IO not used |
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by the genesi build out. You know a "hackers's ARM netbook" |
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since we're chatting..... |
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Do We get an embedded linux discount on these netbooks? |
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What the timeframe to ship the quad core? |
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I'm most likely to run kde on this pup.... |
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So do you do "native compiles" or cross-compile |
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everything new you add? |
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James |