Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267889AbUIPJe6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267918AbUIPJev (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:34:51 -0400 Received: from ns.indranet.co.nz ([210.54.239.210]:17350 "EHLO mail.acheron.indranet.co.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267889AbUIPJdt (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:33:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:33:32 +1200 From: Andrew McGregor To: Ben Greear , David Woodhouse cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: netwinder or ARM build platform Message-ID: <2759EF8E8456BAC099BF31D1@[192.168.1.247]> In-Reply-To: <4140E96F.3080202@candelatech.com> References: <200409091759.i89HxHI2023135@work.bitmover.com> <1094772143.9144.42.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <4140E96F.3080202@candelatech.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.4 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2010 Lines: 60 Lanner IXP425 dev board with minipci disk controller (USB?), or using NFS? Advantech have a PXA-based processor module for their modular baseboards too. Both are much cheaper than a Zaurus, both are about that fast and probably have much more IO bandwidth, being PCI machines. Andrew --On Thursday, 9 September 2004 4:38 p.m. -0700 Ben Greear wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:59 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >> >>> BK found another bad hard drive today, on our netwinder. The disk is >>> dieing badly unfortunately and I don't have installation media for this >>> beast. I suspect I can go find it but does anyone know of a faster >>> build platform for arm? Russell uses bk on arms (no kidding, that's >>> amazing) and so we continue to support it but that netwinder is just >>> amazingly slow. If there is a faster platform we want one. > > Maybe a zaurus with a WiFi NIC, mounting the file systems via NFS? > > I can't hardly imagine that being faster than a NetWinder though! > > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > --------- Andrew McGregor Director, Scientific Advisor IndraNet Technologies Ltd http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GS/E/B/PA/SS d+(++) s+:+ a C++$ ULS++++ !P+++(---)$ L++++$ E++ W++ !N w(+++) !O() M++ V--() Y+$ PGP+ t- !5? X- !R !tv@ b++(++++) DI++ D+++@ G e+++ h(*)@ r% ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/