At 10:21 AM 6/8/99 -0400, Gaixia Zhang wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I understand when you port Linux to StrongARM processor, you can use
>EBSA-285/EBSA-110
>Evaluation Board, But when you port Linux to computers based on ARM
>processor (e.g., Acorn
>RiscPC 600 with ARM 610 processor or Acorn RiscPC 700 with ARM 710
>processor), Do you
>also use some kind of ARM Development/Evaluation Board, or you directly
>port it to the computer?
>
>Looking forward to hearing from you,
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Zhang
>
>
Zhang (et al),
generally you need some readily available platform. These can be either
real products (eg Psion 5) or, more usually with ARM processors, evaluation
boards. Most silicon providers have evaluation boards for their products, hence
EBSA285 (which we did when I was at Digital). ARM does itself have evaluation
boards. The current ones are PID and AEB. There are a lot of PIDs around but
they tend to be rather expensive for the general Linux community as there's not
the volume and they are intended for development of processors/peripherals.
ARM is working on more evaluation boards of varying function/price.
Right now I'm porting Linux to one of them (a PCI based, multi-header flavour).
That port will make it into the ARM Linux sources when I have enough running -
right now I can see the PCI subsystem but cannot (quite) get the 21143 running....
Alternatively, silicon vendors are working on more boards too, for example
Intel.
Dave
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