USD99 ARM Platform with GigE

[Karel Gardas]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw an announcement for an interesting looking
> ARM platform.
> 
> http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
> 
> How does it look to you guys?

Indeed! Nice little box, but I would be worried with GigE, since when I
heard Marvell, then I think Intel (marvell purchased intel xscale
division) which reminds me of the non open-source driver (it was
delivered in a form of source code IIRC, but you are not allowed to
distribute it in the same form) for their NSLU2 cpu
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2). On the other hand if Marvell would
really like to be open, then it looks like they would like to repeat
NSLU2 success...

Karel