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Embedded Linux Hardware Resources?
jessecurry asks: "I've recently come up with a conceptual Linux based piece of hardware and have been able to find a huge amount of information regarding getting Linux on to a device, but almost nothing about creating the device itself. I'd like to know if there are any books, online guides, or software that would help in designing a device that would accept some flavor of Linux. I really don't want to go 'off the shelf', but I need something that can at least display graphics, respond to positional input, and play sound. Also, is there a good place to have all of these components put together once I have a finalized design?"
On how many you want! The answer is very different even for 1 or 20, let alone two million.
The RTAI mailing lists are a good place for this kind of question however, and handhelds.org has a lot of links to embedded Linux projects.
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Some folks swear by 'em, some folks hate 'em. Check out http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware2/ Covers a range of embedded devices from PICs to DSPs and talks about the various buses you'll see.