From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:50:40 +0000 Subject: Re: Availability of SH hardware? Message-Id: 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="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Hi Rich. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > Am I correct that the chips are still available, just not as part of > eval/dev boards, so that in theory, if someone wanted to, they could > make their own board? Or are they completely out of distribution? I > ask mainly from a standpoint of gauging the theoretical possibility of > new users for the original SH models. Unlike SH dev boards, Digi-Key seems to have several SH SoCs in stock: http://www.digikey.be/product-search/en/integrated-circuits-ics/embedded-mi= crocontrollers/2556109?k=3D&pv506Q&pv506R&pv506S&pv506y&pv506=94&pv506T&pv5= 06U&pv506V&pv506p&pv506W&pv506=137&pv506=92&FV=FFf40027%2Cfff800cd&mnonly= =3D0&newproducts=3D0&ColumnSort=3D0&page=3D1&stock=3D1&quantity=3D0&ptm=3D0= &fid=3D0&pageSizeP0 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds