Hi,

 This board will be an open board like early version of balloon board?

Best Regards
Adrian Stanila


> Report on investingation of Balloon3 feasability by prototyping using an
> Intel Mainstone pxa270 development board.
>
> So far we can:
>
> 1) Build a custom bootloader (blob) and JFlash it in.
> 2) Build a 2.6.8.1-tcl1 kernel. This needed a fair bit of modifying as
> there was very meagre support, much brokenness and some things plain
> wrong. irq-pxa270 for example. See husaberg.toby-churchill.com/balloon/
> for source just updated.
> 3) Mount skinny rootfs using jffs2.
> 4) Have audio in and out - plays mp3 files a treat. Sound quality is
> excellent.
> 5) Have an lcd panel login character terminal.
> 6) Have usb master which can:
>    1) Add a usb keyboard for full LCD console.
>    2) Add a usb CDROM/DVD drive
>    3) Network via a USB to ethernet adaptor (2 brands tried)
>    4) Plug in a current balloon using the balloon's usb slave and network
> to each other happily.
>    5) Nearly mount usb mass storage devices - having some trouble with
> partitions.
> 7) Run ipkg in the usual way. Installs mc telnetd madplay ssh ... the
> usual (?Familiar) criminals.
>
> Coming soon (but this may have to wait a bit):
> PCMCIA (almost done)
> RTC
> MMC
> Bluetooth via USB
>
> Suspend/resume not yet tested.
>
> Current consumption not assessed.
>
> As previously stated, Loon3 using pxa270 seems to be a go-er.
> Oh yes, its nice and fast too.
>
> Nick
>
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