Re: Build your own Motherboards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??)
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:04:01 +0100
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 10:41:19PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you plan to make anything buildable by "mere mortals" you probably want
> to look at something that is entirely a geek toy and lower speed. One guy
> on the linux-arm list has successfully built an ARM based homebrew machine.
>
> Embedded ARM means you can be using 33MHz or slower parts, almost no
> glue logic and most I/O devices on chip
You can do something similar with one big FPGA and a few analogue
components for video, network, keyboard and mouse. :-) Oh, and some
memory in practice!
Best combination is probably an ARM, some memory and an FPGA for all the
I/O and glue. Then again, I know a group who are still working on
that after a long time.
-- Jamie
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