Pogoplug, Sheevaplug and other like devices

[monkeykoder]

Has/is anyone looking into doing OS hacking for one of these devices?

[JackScott]

I'm not, but there is an interesting project from Bdale Garbee which is working looking at, called the FreedomBox. There's a presentation on it here.

As for OS-development specifics, they look cool but have enough tricky hardware (as shown by Bdale) that developing on them isn't trivial.

[bifferos]

I'd certainly like to see more people doing OS hacking on the Bifferboard (http://www.bifferos.com), whilst the bootloader normally boots Linux it can also boot multiboot binaries, Coreboot payloads and simple binaries that are called at their load adresss. Since it's 486-compatible a lot of the stuff on osdev is relevant.

I've been fooling around with software UART code this w/e:
https://sites.google.com/site/bifferboa ... ware-uarts

regards,
Biff.

[gravaera]

That is most certainly an interesting board :O

[JamesM]

I'd certainly like to see more people doing OS hacking on the Bifferboard (http://www.bifferos.com), whilst the bootloader normally boots Linux it can also boot multiboot binaries, Coreboot payloads and simple binaries that are called at their load adresss. Since it's 486-compatible a lot of the stuff on osdev is relevant.

I've been fooling around with software UART code this w/e:
https://sites.google.com/site/bifferboa ... ware-uarts

regards,
Biff.

I rather like the 1W power consumption - that's the same as an ARM Cortex-A15 with on board Mali graphics!