Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:33:32 +1200 | From | Andrew McGregor <> | Subject | Re: netwinder or ARM build platform |
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Lanner IXP425 dev board with minipci disk controller (USB?), or using NFS?
Advantech have a PXA-based processor module for their modular baseboards too.
Both are much cheaper than a Zaurus, both are about that fast and probably have much more IO bandwidth, being PCI machines.
Andrew
--On Thursday, 9 September 2004 4:38 p.m. -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:59 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >> >>> BK found another bad hard drive today, on our netwinder. The disk is >>> dieing badly unfortunately and I don't have installation media for this >>> beast. I suspect I can go find it but does anyone know of a faster >>> build platform for arm? Russell uses bk on arms (no kidding, that's >>> amazing) and so we continue to support it but that netwinder is just >>> amazingly slow. If there is a faster platform we want one. > > Maybe a zaurus with a WiFi NIC, mounting the file systems via NFS? > > I can't hardly imagine that being faster than a NetWinder though! > > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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