> Probably easier to develop on: > > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7800 > > The NAND annoyingly is not via the SoC and there are a few other quirks > however as you can boot off the SD card (making it unbrickable and dead > easy to play with kernel dev work), it has real serial ports where you > do not have to faff with to get them and of course the SATA ports.
nice find. thanks. too bad it doesn't expose all 4 sata ports. and way too bad that currently 0 < toy budget < $1. - erik