[Wylug-discuss] Experience with embedded Linux

[Jim Jackson]

As it happens I'm playing with an ARM Single Board Computer at the moment.
It's a TS7200 from Technologics in the states and it comes with a full
Linux kernel in onboard flash, and the outfit provide a cross-compilation
tool chain (so you can compile ARM binaries on an X86 based linux box)
and the image of a complete debain-arm development native environment.

   http://www.embeddedx86.com/epc/ts7200-spec-h.php

It's the cheapest ARM I've seen around. I just bought a board with the ADC
option - you don't need a development kit.

see

      http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/jj/linux/arm-sbc.html

for more info.

No need to write TCP/IP stacks or stuff like that (unless you want to - of
course).

Jim


On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Mischa Oliver Altmann wrote:

> Dear WYLUG,
>
> I'm currently involved in a project of creating a (minimal) webserver on an
> embedded system used for remote monitoring/controlling.
> [skip to last paragraph if you dont want details...]
>   I started out with "TCP/IP Lean"[1] as recommended by my supervisor.
> While the book (and product) is useful, it focuses on building a TCP/IP
> connectivity from scratch using C. I feel like I am reinventing the wheel
> as simliar applications (web servers,...) have been created on embedded
> linux for quite a while now.
>   Recently my supervisor suggested that it might be useful to include not
> only stdandard ethernet connectivity but possible WLAN, bluetooth, you
> name it recommending that I take a look at the ARM range[2] of embedded
> devices.
>
>   Using an ARM opens up the possibility of running a "mini-Linux". A quick
> internet search gives way too many solutions and thus I'd be interested in
>  anyone here who might have experience with embedded Linux and/or embedded
> webservers to give me their personal views?
>
> thanks very much,
>   Mischa
>
> ____
> [1] http://www.iosoft.com
> [2] http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/embedded.html
>
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