Selon Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com:
Where could I find a DIP2PLCC adapter ?
That's what I did yesterday ;-)
i also ordered a MD-2802-D08-V3 and a MD-2202-D128-V3. both come originally from www.m-sys.com (m-systems). on their website you can find a local reseller: http://www.m-sys.com/Content/Contact/MsysWorldwide.asp i am waiting for that as well.
I ordered the 5V versions because my EPIA 800mhz board uses the "SST 39SF020A" flash chip which is rated at 4.5/5V. What board do you have?
currently (afaik) noone has tried to get linuxbios working like this. (if i am wrong then pls tell me!) the plan is to have linuxbios, the kernel and a small rootfs in this m-systems chip (MD-2802-D08-V3 = 8MByte -- can boot linuxbios on DIP motherboards, MD-2202-D128-V3 = 128MB -- but i've heard on this list that it is not possible to boot linuxbios with this chip... we'll see ;-) ). the chip will sit on the DIP2PLCC converter.
I ordered the 8Mbyte chip from tri-m and the DIP2PLCC adapter from epboard. I'm looking to integrate everything to the 8mb chip. I think it's really possible because I already made a linux boot disk (uclibc+busybox+mpg321) which connected itself to my home server and played mp3's as soon as it could.
what type of chassis do you use?
I made a custom chassis for prototyping use only ;-) The final stage of developpement will be to make something nice for the casing.
and a bios savior to make programming easy. and a flash chip (there is one integrated in the bios savior, but that chip is only 256kbyte).
I'm very curious and I want to learn everything ;-) My current project consists of:
VIA EPIA 800mhz all-on-board fanless mb DC-to-DC power supply (input: car voltage.. 14.4v) VWCDPIC adapter (to connect to the cd-changer input of my car (VW)) DIP2PLCC adapter (for the millenium chip) DoC Millenium (8mb, all right for the linuxbios + kernel + small fs)
My first goal is to make it boot in 3 seconds (i think linuxbios can help me achieve it) and start to play mp3's from whatever will be connected to it (for instance, an old hard drive and/or a dvd-rom drive). The mb will feed the audio to the VWCDPIC and the VWCDPIC will feed the commands from my oem head-unit to the computer (rs-232).
Right now, it's kinda slow to boot and only starts playing several seconds after i power-up the board.
I know there's already products that have the same functionnality on the market, but I want to learn for fun how everything is made and create my own product.
My next goal will be to make it play DVDs (once I get a cheap LCD), or rip audio CDs right on the hard drive connected to it, or diagnose what's wrong with my car (vag-com) or whatever I can think of.