Re: Debian first experience made a bit easier...

2009-08-27 Thread Lee Grime
I installed debian a couple of days ago. 1st try with a new 8GB sandisk uSDHC card, which failed with IO errors. I assume this is because of the SD card speed. Tried with a sandisk 4GB uSDHC, using install.sh, with VFAT boot partition. Install worked fine. Some problems encountered :-

Re: New Life in Openmoko Phones

2009-05-20 Thread Lee Grime
If you want any FPGA or CPLD work doing, I will do it. Been doing this kind of stuff since fuse blown devices with Palasm. (20 years!) Any glue logic, hardware acceleration, bus interfaces etc. If anyone has ideas about what we could put in a low powered CPLD/FPGA, please come forward, will

Re: Questions and Answers

2009-01-02 Thread Lee Grime
Sean, I come from a hardware background, chip design mainly, but analogue (note the spelling :-) ) and DSP(MSc) are still strong points. Done chip design for 15 years. Now I do not have a great deal of time at the moment, what with a 3 week old baby and stuff!, but if we can get a few other

RE: Wisdom of crowds - the update

2008-06-03 Thread Lee Grime
Steve, You are assuming that neo customers follow a 1st order model. 2nd order would be +10x -5x +3x -1 sinc function. On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:34 -0700, steve wrote: well I am a big fan of the wisdom of crowds. I am a big fan of the army of davids That said, I also understand

Open Hardware

2008-06-01 Thread Lee Grime
Hello All, New subscriber, have been lurking for a long time. Since the idea of Openmoko is to be fully open source, why can we not have the same for hardware? My background is in hardware design, specifically FPGA's and ASIC's. The system on chip used by the NEO's could be designed as open

Re: Open Hardware

2008-06-01 Thread Lee Grime
Like i mentioned it is a question of scale, a SoC if you already have most of the IP cores will not be hard to design. (the processor could be the stumbling block however) have a look here for IP that is already available http://www.opencores.org/browse.cgi/by_category You are paying nothing

Re: Open Hardware

2008-06-01 Thread Lee Grime
Also, the performance is lower because OGP are using an FPGA and not an ASIC, the same code can be used for an ASIC which will run much faster. On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 09:53 -0400, Chris Wright wrote: Openmoko phones are as cheap as they are because they use commodity hardware, I'm given to