Breadbee: building a Linux single board computer #Linux #SBC @WillyTarreau
Breadbee is a single board computer (SBC) designed and developed by Daniel Palmer (aka ‘dgp’). The board has many unique particularities that appealed Willy Tarreau:
It is small, very small, about 3x3cm, barely larger than the Ethernet jack, because yes, at this size, it comes with Ethernet!
It is quite cheap, roughly $10 for a complete board in small quantities
It is entirely made out of discrete components that are human-friendly and it can be assembled at home!
Despite its small size, it comes with a 1 GHz Cortex A7 CPU, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB SPI NOR flash, and has plenty of I/Os available.
Daniel wants it to be not only blob-free, but also supported by a mainline Linux kernel
Willy goes over assembling a Breadbee in detail and some use details in the post here.
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