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| Thad Floryan... |
 Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:23 pm |
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On 8/23/2009 12:05 PM, 7 wrote:
Quote: Sheevaplug - pure Linux geek juice!!!
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http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
Not very often you get a high end distro like Ubuntu 9.04
and a cheap embedded Linux developer system that is also
capable of running a high end distro.
The $99 Sheevaplug is very much it.
You get a mains adapter size box with a plug to
plug into mains. It has ethernet link, SDCard, USB
and a mini USB serial port.
Nothing else.
For the $99 one gets the cross-compiler development package, too,
in case one doesn't want to compile natively (gcc) on the Plug.
Note also the Ethernet is Gigabit.
Can connect USB devices such as HDs and thumb drives:
<http://thadlabs.com/PIX/SheevaPlug_labelled.jpg>
<http://thadlabs.com/PIX/SheevaPlug_underside.jpg>
<http://thadlabs.com/PIX/SheevaPlug_ext_HD.jpg>
One important fact: it uses very little power. Note the power
stats on this web page which is powered by a SheevaPlug:
<http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Performance#Power_usage>
Quote: No monitor port, no keyboard, no mouse port, no nothing.
Its also running on an ARM chip!
But if you need them (including 7 USBs, RS-232, audio I/O,
1280x1024 VGA, two GiGE ports, etc.) get the Open_RD_CLIENT:
<http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-openrdcdetails.aspx>
Quick tour of the SheevaPlug:
root at (no spam) debian:~# date
Sun Aug 23 20:18:06 UTC 2009
root at (no spam) debian:~# uptime
20:18:10 up 21 days, 10:54, 1 user, load average: 0.52, 0.23, 0.12
root at (no spam) debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.22.18 #1 Thu Mar 19 14:46:22 IST 2009 armv5tejl GNU/Linux
root at (no spam) debian:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.22.18 (dhaval at (no spam) devbox) (gcc version 4.2.1) #1 Thu \
Mar 19 14:46:22 IST 2009
root at (no spam) debian:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l
root at (no spam) debian:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5b6ac646
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30401 244196001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
root at (no spam) debian:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 519168 195036 324132 38% /
tmpfs 257816 0 257816 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 257816 272 257544 1% /var/run
varlock 257816 0 257816 0% /var/lock
udev 257816 12 257804 1% /dev
tmpfs 257816 0 257816 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 257816 38712 219104 16% /var/cache/apt
/dev/sda1 244136352 119008 244017344 1% /media/usbhd
root at (no spam) debian:~# cd /media/usbhd/thad/
root at (no spam) debian:/media/usbhd/thad# ll check_endian
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9733 Aug 3 13:02 check_endian*
root at (no spam) debian:/media/usbhd/thad# file check_endian
check_endian: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically \
linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, not stripped
root at (no spam) debian:/media/usbhd/thad# ./check_endian
This system is LITTLE-ENDIAN
root at (no spam) debian:/media/usbhd/thad# gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
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| Jerry McBride... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:15 pm |
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Thad Floryan wrote:
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On 8/23/2009 12:05 PM, 7 wrote:
Sheevaplug - pure Linux geek juice!!!
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http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
Not very often you get a high end distro like Ubuntu 9.04
and a cheap embedded Linux developer system that is also
capable of running a high end distro.
The $99 Sheevaplug is very much it.
You get a mains adapter size box with a plug to
plug into mains. It has ethernet link, SDCard, USB
and a mini USB serial port.
Nothing else.
For the $99 one gets the cross-compiler development package, too,
in case one doesn't want to compile natively (gcc) on the Plug.
Note also the Ethernet is Gigabit.
Can connect USB devices such as HDs and thumb drives:
Gee... I wonder if I can get mosix running on this and finally have my very
own, cheap/affordable cluster!
Awesome!
--
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From the desk of:
Jerome D. McBride
21:14:12 up 34 days, 1:18, 5 users, load average: 0.46, 0.32, 0.24
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| Thad Floryan... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:10 pm |
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On 8/23/2009 6:15 PM, Jerry McBride wrote:
Quote: Thad Floryan wrote:
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For the $99 one gets the cross-compiler development package, too,
in case one doesn't want to compile natively (gcc) on the Plug.
Note also the Ethernet is Gigabit.
Can connect USB devices such as HDs and thumb drives:
Gee... I wonder if I can get mosix running on this and finally have
my very own, cheap/affordable cluster!
Awesome!
That it is. Apparently Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD are already running
on these, but it's not clear from mosix's page how much work would be
required to port to ARM architecture; this page:
<http://www.mosix.org/txt_distributions.html>
claims "Supports both 32 & 64-bit x86 architectures". Here's the CPU
info of one of my SheevaPlugs:
root at (no spam) debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.22.18 #1 Thu Mar 19 14:46:22 IST 2009 armv5tejl GNU/Linux
root at (no spam) debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 1192.75
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0x131
CPU revision : 1
Cache type : write-back
Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown : format C
Cache format : Harvard
I size : 16384
I assoc : 4
I line length : 32
I sets : 128
D size : 16384
D assoc : 4
D line length : 32
D sets : 128
Hardware : Feroceon-KW
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
root at (no spam) debian:~# |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:03 am |
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On 24 Sie, 03:15, Jerry McBride <jmcbr... at (no spam) mail-on.us> wrote:
Quote: Thad Floryan wrote:
On 8/23/2009 12:05 PM, 7 wrote:
Sheevaplug - pure Linux geek juice!!!
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http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwoo...
Not very often you get a high end distro like Ubuntu 9.04
and a cheap embedded Linux developer system that is also
capable of running a high end distro.
The $99 Sheevaplug is very much it.
You get a mains adapter size box with a plug to
plug into mains. It has ethernet link, SDCard, USB
and a mini USB serial port.
Nothing else.
For the $99 one gets the cross-compiler development package, too,
in case one doesn't want to compile natively (gcc) on the Plug.
Note also the Ethernet is Gigabit.
Can connect USB devices such as HDs and thumb drives:
Gee... I wonder if I can get mosix running on this and finally have my very
own, cheap/affordable cluster!
Awesome!
--
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From the desk of:
Jerome D. McBride
21:14:12 up 34 days, 1:18, 5 users, load average: 0.46, 0..32, 0.24
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:04 am |
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Quote: On 24 Sie, 03:15, Jerry McBride <jmcbr... at (no spam) mail-on.us> wrote:
Thad Floryan wrote:
On 8/23/2009 12:05 PM, 7 wrote:
Sheevaplug - pure Linux geek juice!!!
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http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwoo...
Not very often you get a high end distro like Ubuntu 9.04
and a cheap embedded Linux developer system that is also
capable of running a high end distro.
The $99 Sheevaplug is very much it.
You get a mains adapter size box with a plug to
plug into mains. It has ethernet link, SDCard, USB
and a mini USB serial port.
Nothing else.
For the $99 one gets the cross-compiler development package, too,
in case one doesn't want to compile natively (gcc) on the Plug.
Note also the Ethernet is Gigabit.
Can connect USB devices such as HDs and thumb drives:
Gee... I wonder if I can get mosix running on this and finally have my very
own, cheap/affordable cluster!
Awesome!
--
*************************************************************************** **
From the desk of:
Jerome D. McBride
21:14:12 up 34 days, 1:18, 5 users, load average: 0.46, 0.32, 0.24
*************************************************************************** ** |
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