From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Alexander Clouter Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:48:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3m5l96-cht.ln1@woodchuck.wormnet.eu> References: User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-1-sparc64 (sparc64)) Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: c22a87a4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom wrote: > > i think this marvell media vault soc has quite a bit of > promise. this product seems to be an arm core + a mashup > of other marvell parts. the sata controller appears to have > the same register interfaces as the one driven by sdmv50xx.c. > the ethernet controller is not currently supported, but there > appears to be enough documentation to support it. (as > an added bonus, though i haven't had a chance to check in > detail, i would guess this would help support x86 marvell lom > parts (mv643xx) as well!) > http://www.marvell.com/products/media/index.jsp > the "User Manual" has all the crunchy register specs. > here's a few products based on this soc: > http://www.portwell.com.tw/products/NAD-1004_ca.html > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165130 > > it would be so much nicer running a plan 9. > 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. It would be as good if not better than the Joe Public devices. Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?