As somebody who is shipping a TS-7200 based product and was about to design a
from scratch EP9304 system (a successor to the EP9302) when Cirrus stopped
product development on this line I'm not too concerned about availability. I
talked to Cirrus at the time and again a couple of years later and their answer
was that they are going to manufacture these chips for as long as they have
customers to buy them. Cirrus is not providing support for the chip today but
it is well understood and what warts it has are well documented.
That said, for a new project TS has other boards that are comparably priced,
have more bang for the buck, and have better main-line kernel support for
Linux. Your out-of-the-box experience will likely be better with a newer TS
product. Particularly support for 2.6 kernels is sketchy - TS doesn't support
2.6 on the TS-7200 in any meaningful way and do-it-yourself 2.6 kernels based
on patch sets floating around the web can be problematic if you are not ready
to dive head first into kernel configurations and debugging. [There are
excellent patch sets out there but it is not a place I'd recommend starting out
on the path from XP to Linux if you are more focused on getting your
application working than kernel hacking.]
You will experience serious culture shock if you switch from something like
Microsoft Visual Studio to the Eclipse based Linux development environments.
They both get the job done but the user interface philosophies are very
different. Most everything you are used to in the Windows development world
has an equivalent on Linux but it will take you a while to learn where
everything is. Maybe like moving from New York to Paris.
Good luck,
Bill.
-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of
entity2k10
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:58 AM
To:
Subject: [ts-7000] TS-7200 a point about this board
Dear All,
this is my first post.
For a new design I'm going to use a embedded solution like the TS-7200 board
equipped with the CIRRUS EP9302 ARM9 processor.
Because I've read more over the net regarding this chip I like also to know
what is the think of this community regarding EOL estimation and board usage
with full Linux distribution.
First question then is kindly ask you if someone have ufficial information
regarding the EOL for this chip and then for the board, I've asked infos to TS
and CIRRUS without feedback until now...
Second question is about the Linux environment, I like to use Linux in order to
make my first step in this word from WinXP and Intel based embedded PC mainly
for a reduction cost reason, I've to be honest.
>From ufficial TS documentation I've read that such board can work with the
>TS-Linux embedded OS (preinstalled into the NOR flash) or with Debian distro
>installed on a external CF, regarding this stuff I like to know some think,
>idea from people that are using such solution with this board, just to know
>what I can attempt to found into the future during my application developing
>stage.
Thanks to all for every hint and useful suggest.
Regards
Pow
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