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    How To Get A Dev Unit.

    MIPS will do.
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    Pandora's Closest Rival Cpu Speed Wise?

    How about Ingenic's Jz4732/Jz4740? They are used in Chinese MP4 players and are said to be cheaper than Blackfins and/or faster. SoC, 360 (400?) MHz, energy efficient, MIPS32, SIMD instructions, Linux port. Recently, they have started appearing in cheap laptops (3K Computers, Yinlips...
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    Neon Simd For All...

    As string to substring, hopefully without "disabled" suffix :)
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    Neon Simd For All...

    I would love to see the output of dmesg.
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    Learning C

    It depends on a number of external factors beyond my control that I mentioned in some of my posts.
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    Learning C

    Well, anything goes, really. Corollary: everything sucks. I can't really be bothered with saying which syntactic sugar is the best. Perl, Javascript, Ruby, Python, even Java, are all thin layers over C or C++, their libraries and decades old Unix system calls. I also can't be bothered with...
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    Learning C

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    Learning C

    Well, you are already familiar with pointers in Perl, although they are called references there (perldoc perlref). A straightforward (naive) translation from a hash reference in Perl my %h = (a=>1, b=>2); my $p = \%h; printf "%d\n", $p->{a}; to a struct pointer in C would be: struct {int a...
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    Learning C

    Well, he wanted to do something low level, and C still hides things. Actually I would be tempted to suggest Erlang or ocaml as a sequel to Perl instead of Java or C++.
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    Learning C

    Since you know PHP and Perl, C is already too familiar. Try something radically new to stimulate that grey matter and learn Thumb-2EE, NEON, etc. Later on interface it with your favorite HLL.
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    How To Get A Dev Unit.

    Will these dev units include the right type of serial cable? I dread the prospect of having to make one myself, especially if it's not RS232 on the Pandora side. Is a peripheral boot over the UART supported to override the xloader? A button needs to be pressed on the beagle board to get that...
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    Blog Update, Pcb Inside Case!

    Maybe an electronics boffin can shed some light on that empty space. It seems to me that the WiFi chip will not be soldered to the PCB but must come in some external package (removable/replacable by the user?), interfaced using one of USB/SPI/SDIO, but then I don't understand the large number of...
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