from my old site... Embedded Linux
This post still recovers some content presented in my last website.
Before Raspberry, Panda, Beagle, and other vegetables or animals, there was Linuxstamp board, from Paul Thomas. He made a nice job here: he managed to build a computer with only two layers. The RAM chip is right at the opposite side of the processor. The board had PHY, USB and MMC/SD card. Simple, but worked nicely for several purposes.
It has an AT91RM9200 microcontroller and runs Linux. Although it comes with its own Linux, I decided to refill it with another kernel, rootfs, etc, just to learn how to do it. Along some days I had the feeling of having made a s…., but after some weeks, it came to life again.