[svlug] Linux in a Submarine

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Thu Dec 21 18:20:31 PST 2006


On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:44:36 -0800, Chris Miller wrote:

> Right now it has a little 600MHz chip in it that was ripped out of a
> PDA/Mobile type thingymajigger (I'm just a programmer - don't ask me!)
>  Right now it runs Windows Embedded.  However, Windows doesn't have
> hardly any multithreading support (problematic for real-time
> computational tasks) and we want to move to Linux.  The problem is
> that some of the drivers for the hydrophones and motors we use don't
> have Linux drivers.

Which 600MHz chip? How are the hydrophones and motors connected? Which
USB->Serial connector?





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