it happens (reposting info) i try and point it out but i need to get a wiki running, should be up in a week
im not sure if linux is able to boot from the bare hardware, i assume it needs some sort of setup to get the ram going and such but i could be wrong (somtimes it takes me awhile te relise i am reading mailing lists from 3 yoers ago about things that have been solved, google gives too much info sometimes)
that cpu you mention is a fether weight for phones, i think the philosify of phones replacing pdas and such is a bad idea, it shold be pdas with phones replacing the phone. with bluetooth you dont have to worry about taking the pda out of your pocket, just leave it in your bag, i belive that a better interface to comunicate should not to change the form factor of a phone or pda but to allow them to evelve there design to meet the required functionality (size and power) and suplement thase with objects that are more convienent (ie bluetooth headphones, watch, headset). you dont see a home PC built into a keyboard you buy them sepretly because if they were together they cannot perform to thier fullest (laptops bieng a special case where form follows function instead of functions follows form[/rant]
uboot is good and i will lookinto that, its ideas and infomation like that that i need and helps the most keep them ideas rolling in
cost is as much as a c3000 or current equivelent, thats what i plan on, what we end up with might be diffrent, if you want to save power then the best way would be to lower the cpu, i can see about making the mem banks independently powerable down but i dont belive there would be much point, i have stated that i dont want to fragment the design and will have 2 models initally with an expansion assembly that would turn it into a laptop (eg development blade and the PDA) the reason bieng is that it gets hard to support many platforms each with diffrent reveisons and then you get questions about incompatability and such
i dont want headaches, you can have a 64MB version if you want and i will show you how to do it but i wont suppert you for problems that are specific to your design IF i am too busy, in the end i will probelly help out anyway i just wont garentee it
i think the best way to get this manufactured is as a freescale dev board as chip some manufacterers tend to go low profit on thier dev board and make more maney selling chips, if we use thier chipsets then its more likely they will use the design
by the way i need ideas fr benchmarking the thing, what do you want to see it do, long battery life (eg lenght of time playing moives/mp3's), if so how long, quake playback at acceptable speeds and over wireless is one but i am intrested in what you want it to do in terms of hardware
