[ANNOUNCE] Mini6410: November release of the Free Board Support Package available

                   OSELAS.BSP-Pengutronix-Mini6410
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Pengutronix offers the 2011.11.0 release of it's Board Support Package for the 
FriendlyARM's popular Mini6410.
It provides most of the required components to get this embedded target up and 
running, and is dedicated for beginners in the embedded world. And for 
experienced users it can act as a quick start for their own development 
as well.

Updated Features:
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- PTXdist-2011.10.1
  - Qt-4.7.4
- Kernel: 2.6.39, stable release 4
- Kernel 3.0, stable release 8
- Kernel 3.1, (experimental)
- U-Boot, with support to boot from network and SD/MMC card
- Linux based tools to prepare an SD/MMC card to make the Mini6410 boot from

Please be a aware: this release still doesn't offer full feature support of 
the Mini6410. It currently lacks USB and NAND support.

Feature List:
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- PTXdist based buildsystem for easy setup and build
- more than one predefined configuration
  - one without graphic, for 'headless' usage
  - one with full blown Qt support including an example how to use it 
- recent GCC Toolchain (GCC 4.5.2, libc 2.13) for ARM11 with hard floating
  point support
- Bootloader U-Boot-1.1.6
- Kernel: Support for the following list of hardware components
  - serial console
  - SD/MMC card
  - network
  - LED
  - GPIO
  - AD converter
  - I2C master and I2C EEPROM
  - Real time clock
  - Keypad
  - various LC displays (LCD70 and N43)
  - framebuffer
  - touchscreen
- Comprehensive documentation how to prepare and build all software
  components and to deploy the Mini6410.

Additional info can be found here:

http://www.oselas.org/oselas/bsp/pengutronix/index_en.html

Pengutronix also offers a free support mailing list for the free Board Support 
Packages. Refer our website how to subscribe at:

http://www.oselas.org/mailinglists/index_en.html

Note: Beginners in the embedded world should also read our documentation about 
the generic x86/ARM Board Support Package from here:

http://www.oselas.org/oselas/bsp/pengutronix/generic_bsp_en.html

This documentation contains basic information about PTXdist and how to use it 
in one's daily work.

Comments and contributions are welcome.

Enjoy!
Your Pengutronix Development Team

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