From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:17:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Availability of SH hardware? Message-Id: <56F93D0F.2080403@physik.fu-berlin.de> List-Id: References: <20160317032441.GA22517@brightrain.aerifal.cx> In-Reply-To: <20160317032441.GA22517@brightrain.aerifal.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org (CC'ing everyone who might want a NextVoD) Just a quick update: Paul Liu is willing to acquire several NextVoD boxes which he will either send over to Germany or hand them over at DebConf16 in South Africa. In any case, I thought at a 10 Euro pricetag, I would be happy to send such a NextVoD box to anyone doing SuperH kernel or gcc development, that is: * Rich * Geert * Yoshinori * Oleg * Kaz * Zoltan Anyone else? See the quoted email for the detailed specs below. But I think we won't find any other SH4 hardware with a 450 MHz CPU, 256 MiB RAM and HDMI output for the same or less money. Adrian On 03/25/2016 09:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > 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?id71 >> [4] http://people.debian.org.tw/~paulliu/nextvod/ > -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913