A friend and I had a crazy idea for a linux-based appliance that only works if it can be an order of magnitude cheaper than the Soekris and PCEngines boxes I'm used to tinkering with. And so I went googling to figure out just how low in the system-on-chip world I could go and still run something close to vanilla linux. And found nothing.
It must be that I don't know what search terms to use. Does anybody here? That is, how do I figure out what the cheapest SOC is for which I can build my own kernel and userspace stack? Or does one even do that in the embedded world? Does one instead run something the SOC vendor provides? I think of myself as knowing "embedded linux" because I work on a linux-based smartphone OS, but smartphone hardware is a lot more capable than what I'm trying to research here. Any pointers to get me started? Thanks, --Eric -- ****************************************************************************** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [email protected] * * Crosswords for Android now in beta: via the Market or xwords.sf.net * ****************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
