[rescue] Multia Question

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Scott Newell wrote:

> >> Webpal?  (ARM SoC, can run Linux, s-video/vga out, stereo audio out,
> >> IR remote, IR keyboard, PS/2 mouse/keyboad, no fan, linear power
> >> supply, use the ISA slot for a 10BaseT nic and nfs-mount your root
> >> filesystem to avoid a drive.)
> >
> >Definitely sounds interesting.  Does it use 24-bit color or just 8-bit.
>
> A quick glance through the datasheet for the CL-7500 shows that it can
> support 1,2,4,8,16, and 32 bits/pixel, with 8 bit DACs each for RGB.
> All the guys running Linux are doing so in 8bpp mode.  Been too busy
> with work lately to actually check that the bare metal is capable of
> 32bpp.

Could you refer me to the docs?

> >(It's not really all that important.)  How much does it cost?  Does it
> >run NetBSD?
>
> I gave $13/each for mine (looks like $20 on ebay).  Add another $9-$15
> for 64 MB of ram, $5 or so for a NIC, few bucks for a serial port level
> converter to get the flash reprogrammed.

Not bad at all.

> NetBSD: not at this time.  If there's a NetBSD port running on the 7500
> chip, it probably wouldn't be too hard to mod for the Webpal.

NetBSD supports the ARM7500 under NetBSD/acorn32.  So that should make
things a bit easier.  Do you have specs on this chip?  I'm not really that
familiar with ARM.  How does it compare with the StrongARM chips?

Peace...  Sridhar