[plug] Linux on a chip

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

On top of that, I don't think a 486 is powerful enough to play mp3's (with high
quality)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Thu, 25 May 2000, McMeikan, Andrew wrote:
> Well boot time can be down to 7 seconds off of a HDD and you really need to
> store the MP3's somewhere anyway.
> On a 486 most of the boot time is going to be the kernel starting up which
> is going to be there regardless of source media.
> 
> 	cya,	Andrew...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	John Breen [SMTP:jbreen at wn.com.au]
> > Sent:	Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:08 PM
> > To:	plug at linux.org.au
> > Subject:	[plug] Linux on a chip
> > 
> > I'm sure it's been asked before, but I have a little project I'm
> > looking at - I want to run a 486 board with Linux on it off a car
> > battery (with a view to car mounting it...)
> > 
> > Don't REALLY want to take the time to boot of HDD every time the
> > car's started, so I thought perhaps an EPROM carrying a Linux kernel
> > could be used, and perhaps (if I can find one) an ATA card for
> > storage.
> > 
> > The idea is to put together an MP3 player.  Like I said, it's been
> > discussed before...
> > 
> > Any ideas, info, pointers, etc...?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > john Breen
> >