[U-Boot] Seeking ARM development platform suggestions

[Jason Cooper]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:37:32AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote:
> I'm looking for something:
>  a) I can purchase locally (Australia)
>  b) Is reasonably priced
>  c) Has a mainline port of U-Boot already
>  d) Is 'useful' (media player, NAS, firewall, machine that goes 'ping')
>  e) Has lots of 'things' to play with (network, USB, video, SD/MMC,
> SATA, LEDs, GPIO, Alphanumeric LCD) - Not all have to be currently
> supported (actually, it would be great if some aren't so I can work on
> adding them)

Dreamplug [1], or the D2plug [2], or the CuBox [3].  The last two have
video and mainline support is a wip (Linux).  The first is already
supported in both and has a few more things which need converted to
devicetree.

[1] and [2] have a jtag adapter on the side, and the adpater can be
bought with the device [4].  [3] just needs a micro-usb cable and is
"unbrickable" even when replacing u-boot.  I have yet to test this. ;-)

[2] and [3] are Marvell's new line of SoCs, so armv7.  [1] is kirkwood,
and armv5te.

hth,

Jason.

[1] http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx
[2] http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-8-d2plug.aspx
[3] http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox
[4] http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-28-jtag.aspx