Thanks for your recommendation. I like a lot of things about using consumer off-the-shelf hardware for development. In particular, there's a ton of users and some pretty active hacking communities. However, I think using a more raw system board with a bunch of peripheral options leaves more flexibility (an less, um, creative disassembly requirements) for projects. Thanks, Brian > Hi Guys, > > I used to develop on the xscale environment. I used my > ipaq as a development environment and it supported > usb. > > In addition to development, I got to use it as a pda > too. But yes a bit pricy and may not offer other > features as the development boards. But you might find > some old ones selling for cheap at ebay. > > cheers, > Sharath > > > --- Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:54:13 -0800 (PST), >> brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to get my hands on some XScale >> development hardware to learn >> > about embedded system development with Linux. I >> found some hardware that I >> > like, and I'm looking for people to join forces so >> we can get a price >> > break. The idea is that we all get a price break >> while implicitly forming >> > a development community. Check out >> > >> > http://brian.cavagnolo.org/index.php?topic=armcore_journal >> for more >> > details. >> >> I'm interested, but only if it has the host USB port >> option and I can >> get hold of it pretty soon. I'm doing a roboduck >> project for a Linux >> publication and it has very tight space requirements >> for the embedded >> board to fit in - I've been looking for a PDA sized >> board with USB. >> >> Jon. >> > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? > http://my.yahoo.com > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
