linuxbios on geode gx1.....

[Adam Sulmicki]

>>> I think the geode+ddr that you are referring to is the
>>> AMD Geode GX2. It's being sold in India (typically
>>> together with broadband packages) as the basis for a
>>> low cost computer called the AMD PIC. It's priced at
>>> USD$185 without a monitor and has DDR330 128MB RAM,
>>> 10GB hdd, audio, 1024x768x32 at 75Hz video. It's a 400MHz
>>> part, the GX533 label, I think comes from it's
>>> "equivalent performance" measurement.
>> 
>> 
>> and no ethernet, sigh.
>
> The PIC is part of a marketing campaign called 50x15 "affordable Internet 
> access and computing for 50 percent of the world population by the year 2015"
>
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_12264,00.html
>
> We've been approached at times to design similar platforms for the 3rd world. 
> A x86 Linux machine with LinuxBIOS that also supports M$ with enough power to 
> run basic apps (word processing, browser, MPEG etc.) and is real low cost 
> <$100 and is as idiot proof as possible.

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).