Some spare developer boards and other devices

Some spare developer boards and other devices

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Hello

Few days ago I was unbricking my SheevaPlug and decided to do something
with developer boards (and other devices) which I own but do not use
anymore.

So idea is to give them for free (you cover DHL/UPS/FedEx posting costs)
for OpenEmbedded developers or Szluug users. I will not send outside of
European Union due to amount of papers to fill.

Prefer people with some contributions to open source projects and with
ideas what to do with this hardware (to not send it for staying in other
drawer).

The list is short:

1. Sim-One v1.3

Tech specs: Cirrus Logic EP9307 cpu (arm920t), 64MB ram, 8MB nand, VGA out.
In OpenEmbedded classic it was 'simone' machine.
Package contains: board, serial cable, probably also power supply.

http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2009/11/17/sim-one-0006-arrived/

2. Atmel AT91SAM9M10-EKES

Tech specs: AT91SAM9M10 cpu (arm926ejs), 64MB ram, wqvga screen
Not touched since I got it 2-3 years ago. Easy to support if not yet
supported.

3. ST-Ericsson NHK-15

Interesting board for someone who wants to be kernel hacker. 2.6.20-ste
kernel booted fine and supported everything (with binary blobs even
OpenGL/ES and audio/video encode/decode). Nearly no support in mainline
kernel anyway.

Tech specs: STn8815 cpu (arm926ejs), 64MB ram, WVGA screen
Package contains most of things I got with it:

http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2009/08/04/nhk15-arrived/

4. Openmoko GTA01bv3

One of 36 devices from Phase0 - so very low serial number. But also
serious battery problems. Device with 128MB microSD card. Should be
bootable.

http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/03/05/my-neo1973-has-been-sent/

5. Sharp Zaurus c760

My favourite model of Zaurus family. Also my first donation from user.
But I do not remember when last time I had it powered on so it only
takes space in a drawer. Will add original Sharp serial cable and maybe
bottom case for big and small battery (if find it somewhere). Also
802.11b prism2 card and other CF non-memory cards which will find.

http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2005/04/05/i-will-have-c760/

6. Nokia 770

You know - first Internet Tablet from Nokia. Got it for free:

http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/02/25/fosdem-2007/

7. Koala nano PC

486sx/300MHz in small case:

http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2009/02/20/does-vortex86sx-based-devices-are-worth-something/

Maybe someone will find use for it. May add 256MB compact flash card for
rootfs.

Other things someone may find useful:

- Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 docking station
- bricked TP-Link WR740N router

Re: Some spare developer boards and other devices

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 23:15 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Few days ago I was unbricking my SheevaPlug and decided to do something
> with developer boards (and other devices) which I own but do not use
> anymore.
> 
> So idea is to give them for free (you cover DHL/UPS/FedEx posting costs)
> for OpenEmbedded developers or Szluug users. I will not send outside of
> European Union due to amount of papers to fill.
> 
> Prefer people with some contributions to open source projects and with
> ideas what to do with this hardware (to not send it for staying in other
> drawer).

> 4. Openmoko GTA01bv3
> 
> One of 36 devices from Phase0 - so very low serial number. But also
> serious battery problems. Device with 128MB microSD card. Should be
> bootable.
The advantage over the freerunner is that there is no glamo, so the
microsd and framebuffer support are way better right?

Because of that it may be way easier to add support for it in the
mainline kernel, however it has downsides too:
 * no wifi.
 * non-free GPS.
 * only one bootloader.
 * currently it has no board support for it, and the support for it has
been removed from the gta02 alsa driver in mainline. I think its machine
number has also been removed...because of the lack of support for it in
mainline(no board file has ever been merged in all theses years).

Is there a limit on the capacity of the microSD card that you can put
inside the GTA01?
I also heard that the framebuffer was faster...so I wonder if that makes
the GUI faster or not.

> http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/03/05/my-neo1973-has-been-sent/
> 
> 5. Sharp Zaurus c760
> 
> My favourite model of Zaurus family. Also my first donation from user.
> But I do not remember when last time I had it powered on so it only
> takes space in a drawer. Will add original Sharp serial cable and maybe
> bottom case for big and small battery (if find it somewhere). Also
> 802.11b prism2 card and other CF non-memory cards which will find.
Some time ago I looked at the status of the zauruses, it seems that the
mainline kernel support for them is quite complete. The userspace
support too(opie is still alive and there is a meta-opie...).
The only problem is that they lost their mplayer acceleration for videos
right?

Denis.

Re: Some spare developer boards and other devices

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

W dniu 16.07.2012 00:58, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli pisze:
> On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 23:15 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

>> 4. Openmoko GTA01bv3
>> 
>> One of 36 devices from Phase0 - so very low serial number. But
>> also serious battery problems. Device with 128MB microSD card.
>> Should be bootable.
> The advantage over the freerunner is that there is no glamo, so the 
> microsd and framebuffer support are way better right?

Never used gta02.

> Is there a limit on the capacity of the microSD card that you can
> put inside the GTA01?

I used 128 and 1-2GB ones.

>> 5. Sharp Zaurus c760

> Some time ago I looked at the status of the zauruses, it seems that
> the mainline kernel support for them is quite complete. The
> userspace support too(opie is still alive and there is a
> meta-opie...). The only problem is that they lost their mplayer
> acceleration for videos right?

I stopped using c760 about 3-5 years ago. Since then I did not tracked
what is going on there.