Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists?

From	Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists?
Date	2012-12-18 23:16 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Mel Wilson wrote:
> Another sighting: Chumby Hacker board <http://www.adafruit.com/products/278>
>
> (This is an old thread, and lots of posts have expired.  Have we already
> talked about this one?)
>
> I start to think that the Linux-based boards are a completely different
> tribe from the smaller processors, and would need a completely different
> treatment.

Not necessarily.

> With a hardware-centric solution I would never be thinking about
> using SysV IPC to put a firedoor between the GPIO-controlling processes
> (which need root privileges on the Raspberry Pi)

Are there the usual insmod/lsmod/rmmod device driver/kernel loadable
modules for the raspberry pi? You should not then need a fire door -
just a device driver.

Nothing wrong with SysV IPC.

> and the Internet-facing
> processes.
>
> 	Mel.
>

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Les Cargill

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CPU's and boards for hobbyists? Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2012-12-13 11:39 -0500
  Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists? Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2012-12-13 17:57 +0000
  Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists? Alu Phong <invalid@invalid.com> - 2012-12-19 15:11 +1100
    Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists? Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2012-12-19 12:34 +0000
  Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-12-18 23:16 -0600

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