[Arm-netbook] Marvell Armada and Other ARM Open hardware Software News

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 04:54 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>   _wowww_ i just looked these up, and... what do you know about these:
>>   http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/product/164476.jsp
> There are several vendors of inexpensive ARM SOC's that can be used as
> EC's including NXP and TI
>
> http://ics.nxp.com/lpczone/
>
> http://focus.ti.com/mcu/docs/mculuminaryprodsearch.tsp?sectionId=95&tabId=2485&familyId=1755

 this one looks superb: http://www.ti.com/product/lm3s316

 but the fact that there's a GPLv3 library for the stm32f really clinches it.

> coreboot might be used for the firmware to initialize the ARM Cortex A9
> the same as u-boot is often used. coreboot shines over u-boot in more
> complex systems where PCI, PCIe, SAS, SATA, etc. are utilized and must
> be initialized before a kernel is loaded.

 ok.  _anything_ beats u-boot :)

> control. An ARM system isn't tied to ACPI. The OLPC X0-1.75 developed
> their own firmware and protocol between the EC and ARM SOC.
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/openec/2011-January/000158.html
> EC-1.75 was written for an 8051 EC but it could be used as a reference
> for use in a system with an ARM M3 as the EC.

 good point.

 thanks bari.

l.