Re: Cheap Small PC for RTEMS testing

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM Chris Johns  wrote:

> On 14/1/20 9:40 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > I was looking for a recommendation as a cheap test PC option.
> >
> > I was considering the Minnowboard but it looks like minnowboard.org
> >  is dead which makes me a bit vervois. It has
> 64-bit
> > BIOS. Did we ever get far enough where this might work?
>
> No as it only has UEFI booting.
>
> > https://store.netgate.com/Turbot4.aspx
>
> It may have the same problem as the Minnow boards, ie UEFI booting only.
>
> > Does anyone have any recommendation? Doesn't have to be fancy. Just a
> UART for
> > console and no development required to make the PC work with RTEMS. :)
>
> I have an old ITX board. It is sooo sloo net booting.
>

We have an old Winsystems board of similar size which has a PC104 slot.
It has a MultiIO card on it which according to Lou is still available.
But it can be slow booting also.

I was looking at the PCs here which list COM ports. I got far enough with
one to look at the manual for the BIOS screens. Couldn't quite convince
myself it had legacy boot. Maybe you will have more luck.



>
> Chris
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Re: Cheap Small PC for RTEMS testing

[Chris Johns]

On 14/1/20 9:40 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> I was looking for a recommendation as a cheap test PC option. 
> 
> I was considering the Minnowboard but it looks like minnowboard.org
>  is dead which makes me a bit vervois. It has 64-bit
> BIOS. Did we ever get far enough where this might work?

No as it only has UEFI booting.

> https://store.netgate.com/Turbot4.aspx 

It may have the same problem as the Minnow boards, ie UEFI booting only.

> Does anyone have any recommendation? Doesn't have to be fancy. Just a UART for
> console and no development required to make the PC work with RTEMS. :)

I have an old ITX board. It is sooo sloo net booting.

Chris
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Re: Cheap Small PC for RTEMS testing

[Alan Cudmore]

I wonder if any of these boards would be compatible:
https://up-board.org/

The Up Board that has the same form factor as a raspberry Pi looks like it
is $100 US:
 https://up-shop.org/up-boards/272-up-board.html

A google shows this x86 32 bit processor, which is interesting:
http://www.86duino.com/?page_id=11

The 86duino "zero" is $39 US and has a 32 bit 300mhz x86 compatible CPU.
Says:
 The 86Duino is a high performance and fully static 32-bit x86 processor
board compatible with Windows OS, Linux and most popular 32-bit RTOS
http://shop.dmp.com.tw/INT/products/23

Is RTEMS popular ? :)


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:41 PM Joel Sherrill  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was looking for a recommendation as a cheap test PC option.
>
> I was considering the Minnowboard but it looks like minnowboard.org is
> dead which makes me a bit vervois. It has 64-bit BIOS. Did we ever get far
> enough where this might work?
>
> https://store.netgate.com/Turbot4.aspx
>
> Does anyone have any recommendation? Doesn't have to be fancy. Just a UART
> for console and no development required to make the PC work with RTEMS. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --joel
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Cheap Small PC for RTEMS testing

[Joel Sherrill]

Hi

I was looking for a recommendation as a cheap test PC option.

I was considering the Minnowboard but it looks like minnowboard.org is dead
which makes me a bit vervois. It has 64-bit BIOS. Did we ever get far
enough where this might work?

https://store.netgate.com/Turbot4.aspx

Does anyone have any recommendation? Doesn't have to be fancy. Just a UART
for console and no development required to make the PC work with RTEMS. :)

Thanks.

--joel
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