IRC log for #arm-netbook on 20120204

00:10.26lkclhttp://www.freertos.org/
00:23.04edupreylkcl: oh nice,  should be possible to get it working on A10?
00:23.19lkclit's for the stm32f
00:24.30edupreyah ok,, so   linux  (a10) <-- SPI / I2C  --> freertos (STM32)
00:25.52edupreyI know people have been talking about using STM32 in conjunction with the main SoC on EOMA board
00:25.54edupreys
00:26.31eduprey(or I suppose more properly, on host boards that take EOMA's)
00:28.36edupreyand I suppose I2C over SPI  since that's what we've got on the pinout
00:38.58lkclyep.  ah... no just I2C
00:39.32lkclalso turns out that the OLPC team had to redo the firmware (as GPL source code) for the XO-1
00:39.51lkclwhiiich is entirely in c aaaand would save about 3 months of work.
00:40.25lkclhow can you _possibly_ have 13,000 lines of code just to operate the bloody hardware of a ... a... laptop for god's sake!
00:40.53lkclanyway, it's there, and i'm kinda relieved it's been done already (although yeah it needs porting, obviously)
00:47.07lkclhttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OpenEC
00:51.47mnemoclkcl: armv7m support?
00:52.03lkclmnemoc: *clueless*
00:53.12mnemoconly one file not-c file ... http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/rsmith/ec-1.75/tree/
00:54.36edupreylkcl: yeah wrote that poorly I mean I2C chosen over SPI  ie chosen instead of SPI :)
00:54.53edupreysince SPI doesn't exist
00:56.55mnemoccurses Google for dropping the + operator...
01:02.14edupreylkcl: my day job was complaining because they have a few low power servers in an office closet but can't easily keep them cool..   so yeah, I definitely need to build them a 6x EOMA-CF board and wall mount it in there :)
01:03.26edupreylkcl: are there any gigabit switch IC's that are sourceable by mere mortals?
01:04.10mnemoceoma won't give you the bw you need for a server...
01:04.34edupreymnemoc: think PC-class server, gigabit ethernet we have.
01:05.24edupreyits like a little workgroup for 10-15 people, a samba box and an openvpn server and a shell box
01:06.02mnemoceduprey: if you can make each node live with one sata and 1gb of ram...
01:06.15edupreymnemoc: can't see why not
01:07.16mnemoc:)
01:09.39edupreythough I guess we'll have some beefier cards in the future too
01:10.16mnemocit's about the eoma interface... a card could have more ram in future
01:10.37mnemocbut you will still be limited to 1 usb, 1 sata and 1 ethernet.... and remote filesystems are junk
01:11.01edupreyyeah the interface isn't a problem, 1 sata channel and 1 usb and 1 gige per box is fine too
01:11.20edupreythere are sata multiplexers as long as you don't need a ton of IO
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13:37.56A2Shedslkcl: xvilka has worked with several of the rtos, we looked at freertos for ARM to replace closed BIOS code for EC's in notebooks and servers, but http://www.rtems.com/ has the most standards compliance
13:38.42lkclyeayy
13:38.49A2Shedsmost of my background has been with the closed RTOS like QNX and vxworks etc
13:38.58A2Shedsyou guys decide
13:39.53A2ShedsRTEMS has a good size channel here #rtems
13:40.59A2Shedsand DrJoel  there happily supports and ports it
13:42.04A2Shedseither one can be reduced to a few KB footprint
13:53.44lkclah!  rtems was the one that i liked but couldn't find.
14:01.18A2Shedsbbl 8-core bulldozer + 970 MB for $199... must get
14:13.29lkclha ha
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