On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:02:23AM +0200, Jochen Roemling wrote:
Okay, this is still not quite understood: In order to be able to initialize the mainboard the mainline kernel has to be patched with some kind of boot-loader-from-DoC-thing. But where are the patches for 2.6?
All recent Linux kernels can handle the DoC via the MTD driver. However, I don't think many linuxbios developers are using the DoC anymore. New developments have enabled linuxbios to get the kernel from ide disks (eg compactflash) and from an ethernet network. If I were you I wouldn't go the DoC route.
And this EPIA pops up everywhere on PVR pages, but it has only 2 PCI slots... very dificult to decide...
You should also be aware that the EPIA processors are not the fastest. If you use the PVR-350 and use its hardware MPEG2 compression and decompression you should be ok. But, if you try to use the epia's cpu to compress and/or decompress you could hit the cpu limits.
-Kevin