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Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>> http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm |
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> Sorry, wanted to mention that they run very well with coreboot, an |
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> open source replacement for the BIOS. You can do many really nice |
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> things for embedded when you can control also the boot firmware. |
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> (Power-to-app in milliseconds, for example.) |
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Can you please expand a little more on this with particular regard to |
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the Alix2? |
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TinyBios already boots to the linux kernel in a couple of seconds, but I |
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am personally having trouble getting the kernel to load in less than |
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about 10-12 seconds (using a lightly tweaked 2.6 kernel). Shorter boot |
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times would be quite desirable for my design... |
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Also you have quite a lot of yellow in your support matrix. Given I |
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need all the features of the board for my design (pretty much), |
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including the flashing lights and the optional buzzer, what problems am |
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I going to run into with stuff not working? Am I likely to care that |
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ACPI is unsupported? |
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My design is basically a fancy router + mail server + couple of other |
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embedded apps. It's commercial so it would be useful to understand how |
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to comply with the (GPL) licensing terms? |
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Ed W |
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