From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <384ED14B.B7C0726D@netx4.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 16:44:43 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mika Kuoppala CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Good embedded board to start with References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Mika Kuoppala wrote: > This is just an evaluation project and we are going > to buy one board only at start. People willing to sell you just a single board without any potential future sales don't usually provide the best experience. People that sell production quality boards to companies that value their development time, want to minimize risk, and want to minimize time to market are investing to provide the tools that allow you to start application development within minutes of receiving the boards. > .... Main purpose is just to > get into embedded-ppc world and get it up and running, and > doing so gain self-confidence that ppc might be an alternative > to x86 in embedded things. Because of the volume of PPC to x86 in the market today, many companies have proven PPC is the preferred embedded processor. I have personally assisted several companies switch from x86 to PPC, so they may realize lower cost, lower power, smaller form factor and expand their product features. All of them used a Linux/PPC kernel that you can download from the servers, with custom applications to suit their requirements. > ......I know linux rather well on x86 > side but in ppc world only thing i have currently is motivation. Linux is Linux. It looks the same. On the PPC the bytes are in their proper world order.....As are the bits, but I won't discuss that now :-). > Am i totally in too deep waters with this ? I have heard of people drowning in a cup of water, but I doubt there is anything you are doing that hasn't been proven to work before. It seems to me you are just going to waste time proving to yourself that what others have done actually works. There is no reason to wonder any longer. If you want to develop products using PPC and Linux, just decide to do that and leverage the work of others. People trying to develop custom hardware and port all of the software from scratch are going to be left in the dust by companies rapidly creating new products on available production quality hardware and software. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/