[Voyage-linux] A Cheaper Motherboard

[Kerry Brown]

I had been talking to Punky about An arm port, at the time he didnt have 
a board to test it on, but I built up some images, and Have, i guess 
what you can callan
Unofficial Port of Voyage to The Gateworks boards, with the cf slots..

Thanks
Kerry


Edwin Whitelaw wrote:
> I have an associate locally who is manufacturing a custom XScale 
> platform running Linux.   He believes he could hit the cost bogey 
> folks are looking for depending on memory requirements but wants to 
> know what developer interest there is in porting Voyage to this 
> platform.  He could provide some boards in a fairly short time for 
> testing/development if the interest is there with an initial 
> production run as early as sometime this summer.
>
> Going back to the earlier discussion on this list, there probably 
> should be a low-end board, ~$50-$70, for client use but a more 
> expensive one, say $100-$130 range, could easily be justified if 
> that's what it takes to get the additional functionality an 
> AP/router/DNS/DHCP server requires.  After all, an AP with even 20 
> clients is going to pay for the additional one-time cost in a few days 
> operation.
>
> My personal choice is a single mini-PCI slot client and a three slot 
> AP, two for 5.8GHz backhaul in and out and one with a 2.4GHz AP.
>
> Does anyone know what processor PC Engines is going to use in their 
> upcoming ARM9 product?  What success have any list members had in 
> running on XScale?
>
> Does anyone have a wish list of what features are needed in a low cost 
> CPE?
>
> I'm not expert at board manufacture but am intrigued by the possibly 
> *very* low power consumption implied here for possible solar or 
> wind-generated power source installations.  Being divorced from 
> reliance on the local power company would be a great advantage for 
> site selection.
>
>
> Edwin
>