{"id":3368,"date":"2018-11-14T00:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T00:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2018-11-17T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:27:54","slug":"new-part-day-a-6-linux-computer-you-might-be-able-to-write-code-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/new-part-day-a-6-linux-computer-you-might-be-able-to-write-code-for\/","title":{"rendered":"New Part Day: A $6 Linux Computer You Might Be Able To Write Code For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news from the world of cheap electronics <a href=\"https:\/\/c-sky.github.io\/docs\/gx6605s.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is a single board computer running Linux<\/a>. It costs six dollars, and you can buy it right now. You might even be able to compile code for it, too.<\/p>\n<p>The C-Sky Linux development board <a href=\"https:\/\/item.taobao.com\/item.htm?&amp;id=556322544984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is listed on Taobao<\/a> as an \u2018OrangePi NanoPi Raspberry Pi Linux Development Board\u201d and despite some flagrant misappropriation of trademarks, this is indeed a computer running Linux, available for seven American dollars.<\/p>\n<p>This board is based on a NationalChip GX6605S SoC, a unique chip with an ISA that isn\u2019t ARM, x86, RISC-V, MIPS, or anything else that would be considered normal. The chip itself was designed for set-top boxes, but there are a surprising number of build tools <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/c-sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that include buildroot, GCC and support for qemu<\/a>. The company behind this chip <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18425643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is maintaining a kernel<\/a>, and support for this chip has been <a href=\"https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git\/commit\/arch\/csky?id=c32e64e852f3f5c0fd709f84bc94736840088375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added to the mainline kernel<\/a>. Yes, unlike many other single board computers out there, you might actually be able to compile something for this chip.<\/p>\n<p>The features for this board include 64 MB of DDR2 RAM, HDMI out (with a 1280 x 720 framebuffer, upscaled to 1080p, most likely), and a CPU running at just about 600 MHz. There are a few buttons connected to the GPIO pins, two USB host ports, a USB-TTL port for a serial console, and a few more pins for additional GPIOs. There does not appear to be any networking, and we have no idea what the onboard storage is.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a challenge to get something compiled, this is the chip for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/11\/12\/new-part-day-a-6-linux-computer-you-might-be-able-to-write-code-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news from the world of cheap electronics is a single board computer running Linux. It costs six dollars, and you can buy it right now. You might even be able to compile code for it, too. The C-Sky Linux development board is listed on Taobao as an \u2018OrangePi NanoPi Raspberry Pi Linux Development &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/new-part-day-a-6-linux-computer-you-might-be-able-to-write-code-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Part Day: A $6 Linux Computer You Might Be Able To Write Code For&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}