PC/104

[Christopher Friedt]

Check out www.embeddedarm.com ... the hardware is excellent and very 
good for entry level embedded stuff.

I would say that the MPP board is not related at all to Linux running in 
cell phones. The MPP board has a completely different market, and would 
be programmed in assembler, or gcc-m68k if you feel daring. If you used 
gcc-m68k you would have to compile everything statically - much like the 
linux kernel. The MPP board is intended for educational purposes - that 
is, instrumentation and data acuisition - mainly for electrical 
engineering students.

However, it is possible to get uClinux to run on the MPP board from what 
I hear through the grapevine. Forget any sort of filesystem, forget the 
TCP/IP stack, forget a scheduler, etc. You have pinouts and a serial 
port. It would be the  least sophisticated Linux port you've ever seen - 
that's not saying that it wouldn't be damn cool to port it :) And the 
hardware design for the MPP board was also excellent for it's purpose :)

Speaking as someone who's programmed for the MPP board, the embedded arm 
devices above, and soon, the OpenMoko/Neo, I would suggest buying an 
OpenMoko if you're interested in programming cell phones running linux.

~/Chris

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Does anybody around has some experience with these toys?
> 
> I once noticed this link in email of one of active participants of this 
> list
> (I remember very well of whom, I am sorry not to remember the name):
> 
> http://www.syscompdesign.com/mppkit.htm
> 
> But thats not quite what i am looking for.
> 
> My boss (he is very good in hardware but learns Linux from me rather)
> directed me to PC/104.
> 
> I had some reading on the subject. But I do not still quite know how to
> approach it.
> 
> Would it be difficult to assamble something with Linux running on it?
> 
> This seems to be a big industry, perhaps well standardized (
> http://www.pc104.org).
> 
> Is it worth to invest time to learning these things? How that is related to
> embedded Linux in cell phones? Is there a job market for that kind of
> computer art?
> 
> I am sure that there are people around with some related experience. I
> simply would like to play with it. Possibly in some not very far future I
> would also need that kind of knowledge in my work.
> 
> zb.
> 
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