http://www.phytec.com/news/ZT-Systems-R1801e-Server.html
folks, many apologies: in the search for various Cortex A9s that also have SATA-II i'd completely forgotten about the STmicroelectronics spear1310. ST have this strange habit of throwing money at CPU designs in an iterative cycle. the spear1310 they could only get up to 600mhz, and decided to not do things like ooo put on a proprietary 3D GPU engine... at all. so it would actually make an absolutely stonking FSF Hardware-endorsed compliant platform. oh, and get this: it takes up to DDR3-1066mhz (ECC available), actually has _three_ SATA-II ports, _three_ PCIe 2.0 ports, 2 gigabit ethernet, and even a bloody 32-bit PCI port! oh, and 2 USB2 plus 1 USB-OTG. of course. if you could actually find a low-cost - and low-power - PCI 3D Graphics IC (if they still exist!) it would be possible to build a stonking system based around this CPU. buuut, even without doing that, the SO-DIMM form-factor module designed by phytec for ZT System's 8-way server already exists. wonder if they'd actually sell it in single qtys (phytec or zt-systems)... l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/capweedzfdo4j0trolb26snonshgyofw2h+sh8idtz7rkorm...@mail.gmail.com
