Re: Raspberry Pi and Lua

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Jay Carlson wrote:
>>
>> Let's look at another vendor. Realtek appears to be shipping a zillion
>> RTL8169s to lots of small manufacturers; the chip seems like it has
>> most of the other important features besides GPU for the RPi.

> Are you sure about that part number? A few moments googling gave me
> an English data sheet out of India that indicates it's a gigabit Ethernet
> controller. I see no indication of a CPU here.

Must have been looking at kernel logs for desktop boxes. I didn't mean
the 8169, I meant the 81*96*, specifically the RTL8196B and RTL8196C.
Their predecessors in ~2003 had PCI; these appear to have PCIe as
http://www.realtek.com/press/newsViewOne.aspx?NewsID=177 also mentions
combining with a 2T2R 802.11n PCIe device for a SOHO AP.

BTW, I'm not endorsing these chips; I'm just an interested observer of
the embedded Linux market. "The street finds its own uses for things."

Jay