I suspect Linux based systems are a few sigma away from the original goal of a cheap pic choice...:)
But to get back to the original point, you can get samples of most of the PIC chips from MicroChip for free. I think the limit is 3 per week. Or 30 days, I don't remember. Bob On May 25, 2013, at 20:36, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > If you want Linux, you probably also want something like an A9 or better. The > M0 and even the M4's MCU's are not really targeted at Linux. Can you pack it > into a big M4 - sure, it'll be a tight fit and you may not have everything > you really wanted to have. Oddly enough some of the M4's have better native > ethernet than some of their "big brothers". Weird…. > > Bob > > On May 25, 2013, at 8:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> If you go arm cortex and linux, you will need to make your code a "service." >> You will want it to start up by itself and if for some reason it crashes, >> you will want it to restart itself. The buzzword is "harden" and the >> techniques vary depending on the distribution. >> >> You should check the architecture of the system. I didn't realize many of >> these boards run the ethernet off the usb hub. My recollection is the a10 >> used by Allwinner does not do that. >> >> Opensuse has JEOS, which stands for Just Enough OS. Less is more! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
