Re: Availability of SH hardware?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On 03/17/2016 10:10 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> So, with Renesas out of the picture, sources for SuperH hardware would
> be either open source people in Japan who used to work for Renesas -
> I know, for fact, that Renesas hired lots of people in Japan to work
> on SuperH support in Linux - or third-party companies like emtrion [1]
> or Alpha Project in Japan [2]. Another option would be getting an
> old LANDisk device which can also be used to run Debian's sh4 port [3].

So, while reading the SH4 page in the Debian wiki [1], I stumbled
accross another very interesting SH4 machine, the NextVOD from
Taiwan [2] (Chinese name: 網樂通).

The specs [3] look very promising:

 * SH7105 CPU running at 600 MHz (other sources claim 450 MHz)
 * 256 MiB RAM
 * 8 GiB Flash storage (through an internal USB stick)
 * Ethernet
 * USB 2.0
 * HDMI
 * AV out

Apparently Paul Liu (another Debian guy from Taiwan I know personally)
has or had such a device as well. At least he's got a filesystem image
in his Debian webspace [4].

I will get in touch with him. Maybe he can help us acquire multiple
boxes from Taiwan for little money.

Adrian

> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/SH4
> [2] http://www.techbang.com/posts/4504-one-television-report-lok-tong-demo
> [3] http://digiland.tw/viewtopic.php?id\x1771
> [4] http://people.debian.org.tw/~paulliu/nextvod/

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