Cheap big-endian board

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Fri Aug 3 20:17:43 UTC 2012


Hi,

what is your budget in Euros?  Do you have a JTAG-Debugger.  I think the 
PowerPC evaluation boards are in general much more expensive than the 
ARM boards.  What about using a simulator, e.g. Qemu, PSIM (for PowerPC) 
or GDB (for SIS BSP on SPARC)?

On 03/08/12 18:35, Mathew Benson wrote:
> I have never used RTEMS, but would like to prototype some ideas for
> using RTEMS on the job.  I have no budget for a demo or prototype, so
> I'm looking for cheap development boards.  Can somebody recommend
> cheap dev boards with the following criteria:
>
> - RTEMS BSP available or easy to tailor or create one
> - Big endian CPU (I'm porting code from an already existing big endian
> project and don't want to byte swap)
> - Inexpensive (preferably in the same price range as Beagleboard or Gumstix)
> - Equivalent processing speed to a 400 MHz Pentium II or better
> - Preferably no less than 128 MB of RAM
> - Ethernet
> - Programmable via USB, serial, or ethernet
>
> I've been going through the platforms listed on the BSP wiki page but
> haven't found a good one yet.  I understand both Beagleboard and
> Gumstix are bi-endian, but all the toolchains I find are setup for
> little endian.  Ideally, I would love to use the Gumstix.  Can that be
> setup big endian easily?
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