From: Stefano Regno <stefano.regno@spesonline.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: OE presentations
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:00:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F71A12.5050302@spesonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D310B6.7090005@gremlin.it>
Alessandro GARDICH wrote:
> Robert Schuster wrote:
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> Alessandro GARDICH schrieb:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> this is a presentation I did about Linux Embedded and OpenEmbedded in
>>> Italian for Linux Day (in Italy) in 2007.
>>>
>>> http://www.gremlin.it/download/index.php?dir=&file=LinuxDay2007%20-%20GNU%20Linux%20Embedded.pdf
>>>
>> This link provokes some anti-leech thingie ... disturbing .. :$
>>
>> Anyway. I don't understand itialian but your slides look like you argue
>> that an embedded system has certain system parameters like RAM, storage,
>> CPU speeds that are much lower to what you expect from a desktop
>> machine. While this may be true for some time you are always risking
>> that next years' technology catches up with your assumptions very
>> quickly.
>>
>> Just think about the Sheeva CPU which supports clockspeed up to 1.2GHz,
>> or the OMAP4 which will comes with 2 CPU cores.
>>
>> A better way to argue is IMO the great integration an embedded system
>> provides. The chip that makes up the system often contains various
>> controllers for e.g. ethernet, wireless, sound, lcd, bluetooth, ...
>> Often there is also a graphics core and a DSP added.
>>
>> And while having all these shiny stuff in they consume a fraction of the
>> power a desktop CPU does.
>>
>> That is at least the way I would introduce people to the embedded
>> world. :)
>>
>> Regards
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> Anyone have info about beagle? or how can find info detailed about it?
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> Yes, but as i said, it's a presentation of 2007 ...
> and was an introduction to Embedded Linux and OE, for in high scool
> students and fresh linux users.
> Moreover, most ARM processor was under 300MHz in 2007
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-28 23:14 OE presentations Robert Schuster
2009-03-29 18:07 ` Marco Cavallini
2009-03-30 8:48 ` Elena of Valhalla
2009-03-30 9:07 ` Stefano Regno
2009-03-30 10:44 ` Robert Schuster
2009-03-30 18:00 ` GNUtoo
2009-03-30 19:03 ` Alessandro GARDICH
2009-03-31 22:46 ` Robert Schuster
2009-04-01 6:59 ` Alessandro GARDICH
2009-04-28 15:00 ` Stefano Regno [this message]
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