Greetings,
Thanks for the news. I am sure that we are all happy to see you guys so
busy :)
I am also convinced that some of us will contribute to Linux port if
they can.
Matthieu
Eddie Dawydiuk wrote:
>
> Technologic Systems has been seeing continual growth, even through the
> economic downturn. I don't want to give out too much information about
> what engineering is currently working on, but I can give some info. This
> year we will be releasing three new products using SoC's not currently
> used by TS. The first of the three boards will be using a PowerPC
> SoC(www.embeddedppc.com ;). The hardware design is complete and I am in
> the process of getting a 2.6.28 kernel ported. Further I've been able to
> convince management to allow us to work with the Linux community to get
> the board supported mainline. We are still in the early stages of the
> kernel port, so please let me know if you have any suggestions/software
> features you'd like to see(although I know this is a bit difficult without
> knowing the hardware specs). If anyone is interested in helping to make
> this port happen(I'm hoping we won't have to rewrite to much code in order
> to satisfy the various Linux maintainers in order to accept the TS-8150
> support in the mainline kernel). Or if anyone is interested in being the
> official maintainer please contact me off list. The next board we will be
> releasing is in the hardware design phase, I don't want to say too much
> about it yet. Although I can tell you the design is using the ARM
> architecture and is targeting low cost with a small form factor. It will
> be our lowest cost board as well as our smallest board to date. The third
> board in the pipeline is still in the board layout phase. It is the board
> I am most excited about. I can't say too much about it yet, although it
> will be our fastest board yet with a surprising low cost and power
> consumption. I have a few home automation projects I'd like to use it for
> as well as possibly a carputer.
>
> As many of our customers know we like to pick our customers brains. That
> is when customers call in we like to ask about what projects they're
> working on and ask what types of products/peripherals they'd like to see
> TS design in the future. Although we really haven't posed these types of
> questions on the mailing list yet. So let us know are there any
> peripherals, busses... you'd like to see TS use for new designs? If you
> were the designer and you had control over what cores to add to the FPGA
> of a new board what cores would you put in the FPGA?
>
> Regards,
> //Eddie
>
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