Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Convert Geode GX2 boards to CAR

[Nils]

Ping!?
Could anybody tell me how to proceed?
Peter:did i gave the wrong answers? :)

Thanks,Nils.

[PATCH] Convert Geode GX2 boards to CAR

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:27:12 +0200, Nils  wrote:
> Ping!?
> Could anybody tell me how to proceed?
> Peter:did i gave the wrong answers? :)
>
> Thanks,Nils.

Nils,
I really would hate to see your great work go to the way side.
It has been a few revisions since your original patch. 
As long as you can send a working/tested updated patch to the list:

Acked-by: Joseph Smith

[PATCH] Convert Geode GX2 boards to CAR

[Nils]

Hi Joseph,

Op vrijdag 16 juli 2010 14:41:47 schreef u:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:27:12 +0200, Nils  wrote:
> > Ping!?
> > Could anybody tell me how to proceed?
> > Peter:did i gave the wrong answers? :)
> >
> > Thanks,Nils.
>
> Nils,
> I really would hate to see your great work go to the way side.
> It has been a few revisions since your original patch.
> As long as you can send a working/tested updated patch to the list:
>
> Acked-by: Joseph Smith

Thanks for the heads up!
At the moment i have no time to update/test the patch, maybe in a few days.
I will delete the unused code if til then nobody speaks up/ objects.
And add the new line in Makefile.inc .
Maybe until then Peter finds some time  to give some professional advice.
Thanks again for the ack.

Nils.

P.s. How is your paraflasher project doing? Do you have some programming 
results already?

[PATCH] Convert Geode GX2 boards to CAR

[Joseph Smith]

On 07/16/2010 03:35 PM, Nils wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Op vrijdag 16 juli 2010 14:41:47 schreef u:
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:27:12 +0200, Nils  wrote:
> > > Ping!?
> > > Could anybody tell me how to proceed?
> > > Peter:did i gave the wrong answers? :)
> > >
> > > Thanks,Nils.
> >
> > Nils,
> > I really would hate to see your great work go to the way side.
> > It has been a few revisions since your original patch.
> > As long as you can send a working/tested updated patch to the list:
> >
> > Acked-by: Joseph Smith
>
> Thanks for the heads up!
> At the moment i have no time to update/test the patch, maybe in a few days.
> I will delete the unused code if til then nobody speaks up/ objects.
> And add the new line in Makefile.inc .
> Maybe until then Peter finds some time  to give some professional advice.
> Thanks again for the ack.

No problem, I have a few GX2's myself that have coreboot writen on them 
but way to many other things going on now to study code vs datasheets to 
get familiar with the GX2. Like I said I would hate for you code to go 
to the way side.
> P.s. How is your paraflasher project doing? Do you have some programming
> results already?

No programming yet; still working on hardware design, I decided to make 
my own pcb's for it, something I have wanted to do for a long time. I 
have designed it with the gEDA tools (gschem, gsch2pcb, and PCB) which I 
have come to Love. Anyways the final harware should be kick ass. I have 
the programming for it in my head, just nothing on paper yet.

[PATCH] Convert Geode GX2 boards to CAR

[Nils]

Op zaterdag 17 juli 2010 01:00:15 schreef u:
> > P.s. How is your paraflasher project doing? Do you have some programming
> > results already?
>
> No programming yet; still working on hardware design, I decided to make
> my own pcb's for it, something I have wanted to do for a long time. I
> have designed it with the gEDA tools (gschem, gsch2pcb, and PCB) which I
> have come to Love. Anyways the final harware should be kick ass. I have
> the programming for it in my head, just nothing on paper yet.

Nice!
The last time i designed a pcb myself was ~20 years ago.
It was a special and very expensive to buy type 1MB SIMM to expand my Philips 
386 pc to 2MB!
That were times.
Nowadays i make my circuits mostly on breadboard.

Nils.

Ps:I hear that nowadays you can order PCB`s real cheap in china.
But i didn`t use it for my simple designs yet as i found the shipping cost for 
1 PCB to high.

[PATCH] Convert Geode GX2 boards to CAR

[Peter Stuge]

Nils wrote:
> Ps:I hear that nowadays you can order PCB`s real cheap in china.
> But i didn`t use it for my simple designs yet as i found the
> shipping cost for 1 PCB to high.

There is certainly a market for small quantity PCBs. Competition has
driven cost down. If you can wait for long(ish) delivery times then
you can certainly order from China. Look for some local PCB houses,
that offer cheap slow service. Here in Sweden I know a couple of
alternatives ranging from ~3 week delivery Made in China to next-day
delivery Made in my city. :)

For low quantity stuff I've used the Olimex prototype PCB service a
couple of times, and while it is not quite as nice as production PCBs
I think it is still much better value for money than messing with
chemicals in the kitchen. I also understand that Olimex have improved
their processes a lot since my last orders.

Their basic cost is ~30 USD for 160x100 mm of 2-layer PCB area IIRC.
You can panel that however you want and they'll cut it up for you.

http://olimex.com/pcb/

//Peter