Re: 1.2GHz US$99 ARM wall plug

2009-02-26 Thread Joseph C. Bender
Dave Wilson wrote: I confess, I believe the bit they're opening is the schematics for the circuit board and the board layout files, rather than the internals of the chip. After all, anything that encourages as many people as possible to buy their SoC that lies at the heart of the design is in th

Re: 1.2GHz US$99 ARM wall plug

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Wilson
Nick Holland wrote: > Dave Wilson wrote: >> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html > > Marvell Semiconductor, eh? > >> They look rather nifty. >> >> Even the hardware design is to be released under some sort of open license. > > a company with a spotty history on "open" -- see malo(4) >

Re: 1.2GHz US$99 ARM wall plug

2009-02-25 Thread KammyDoe
If you do find one in the UK, please let us know! Or at any rate, could you fire me a mail? :P I too am UK based. The only placse I can think that may sell them anytime soon are possibly Maplins or MicroAnvika. :| But they don't have a tendency to be cheap. I hope we see it on PCWorld's shelv

Re: 1.2GHz US$99 ARM wall plug

2009-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Wilson wrote: > http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html Marvell Semiconductor, eh? > They look rather nifty. > > Even the hardware design is to be released under some sort of open license. a company with a spotty history on "open" -- see malo(4) ("spotty" is giving them a benefit of

1.2GHz US$99 ARM wall plug

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Wilson
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html They look rather nifty. Even the hardware design is to be released under some sort of open license. We've already got the armish port. If Dale Rahn or another OpenBSD dev wants to do a port to this thing, I'll buy them the dev kit to do it with. US