Re: Suitable chipset for a pocket linux box

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:33:24 -0800

madman@zip.com.au said:
> Myself and a few other comp sci/eng studnets at the Uni of NSW,
> australia want to do a little pocket linux box project. To get the
> ball rolling we have to decide on a suitable chipset. I'm writting to
> ask what the best arcitecture for this project would be. We need a
> low cost, low power usage chip with a bit of grunt and with a solid
> nitch in linux support.

Try Digital StrongARM. This is an ARM processor that has real compute
power and (supposedly) very low power consumption. There is a Linux/ARM
port in the works, I think even running, somewhere.

<http://www.digital.com/semiconductor/strongarm/strongar.htm>

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