From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [65.182.109.70] (helo=mta1.brinkster.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MLzOh-0000hq-UY for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:58:49 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.brinkster.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3142397983 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:46:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.4 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.332, BAYES_00=-2.599, MSGID_MULTIPLE_AT=1.449, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=0.877, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1] Received: from mta1.brinkster.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.brinkster.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sNxSXIvarTya for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:46:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MareImbrium (82-46-19-72.cable.ubr02.bath.blueyonder.co.uk [82.46.19.72]) by mta1.brinkster.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22FC397546 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:46:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "John Willis" To: References: <20090701115959.GA10962@pcimg12.dei.unipd.it> In-Reply-To: <20090701115959.GA10962@pcimg12.dei.unipd.it> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:46:16 +0100 Message-ID: <04a901c9fa49$ee4648f0$cad2dad0$@Willis@Distant-earth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Acn6Ra2pgpTOWQ3tTJiRwFGd9H/OhQAA8T1Q Subject: Re: looking for an arm-based board X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:58:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-us > This time I need a small arm with standard peripherals (UART, SPI > or > I2C) and ethernet. The task it has to do is controlling a few > devices > with the commands received over TCP/IP. > > Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a > cost > effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE stable/2009? If you want a cheap board that is well supported and very actively developed by OE (both dev and stable/2009) then the obvious choice is the BeagleBoard. You would need to add Ethernet into the mix but a simple USB stick (or I/C) can do that job well. It's a Cortex-A7 board so it may be over the top in the capacity stakes but it's hard to knock it ;-). John