On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:08:39AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > > of curiosity. How much do you guesstimate it would increase cost > > of the PIC if they add added built-in ethernet to it? $0.50 ? > > (not really sure if Geode cpu has build in ethernet or not). > > I keep wondering if they did delete ethernet so as to make it not > compete with more expensive platforms. I find the removal of > ethenet very odd.
Neither GX1 nor Geode have ever had ethernet built-in. If you want ethernet it goes on the external PCI bus. NatSemi has been known to offer good package deals for sets of Geode+DP838xx+support chips however. Insyde BIOS licenses aren't exactly free however, and for a consumer device that would indeed be the path of least resistance. You can get custom modifications done for a fee too. (Or, "just" port LinuxBIOS.. :) //Peter _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
