<> [2010-11-17
15:14:14]:
> On 23:29 Wed 17 Nov , Petr Štetiar wrote:
>
> > that TS still lives in the caves (By this, I mean, that they don't get the
> > open source and mainly the community-around-the-product philosophy at all).
>
> What do you mean here? Just curious...
> * open hardware?
Yes, why not? It's not completly open, even the software isn't...
> * GPL code?
They comply with GPL, there's no problem, but can you show me for example some
upstream patches by TS in software they're using, say in Redboot, Linux kernel
as examples? They just take the code from community, patch it for they
purposes and give you tar balls with sources, nothing back, even no free
board/samples. Yes, that's completly fine, but as I see it, they're just
leeching from community, not giving anything back, well yeah, they gave us
very useful NetBSD port :-)
> If only the beagleboard had DAC/ADC/DIO/Dual eth/... then I would switch.
> But until then ...
There's many DIO, don't know exactly how much, but plenty. Adding ADC/DAC
should be dead easy, using some SPI/I2C add-on. Look at TT[1] they've some
quite useful add-on boards, like the Trainer[2]. IGEP2[3] is also interesting,
tho. BTW, which TS board does have dual ETH? Adding second one to Beagle
should be easy using some USB-ETH. Have I mentioned dual core 1GHz Omap4,
Pandaboard[4] yet?
1. http://www.tincantools.com/
2. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard_Trainer
3.
http://www.igep-platform.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=55
4. http://www.pandaboard.org
-- ynezz
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