Hi aiju, Quoth Julius Schmidt: > I am currently collecting funds for a production run of a Zynq based > board built specifically with Plan 9 in mind. It has a dual-core ARM > CPU and a Xilinx FPGA. We are running 9front, but labs and 9atom > would likely work fine too.
That sounds cool. To ask a very naive question, why do you need a FPGA to offload the Plan 9 drawing operations? Why couldn't you just use a regular GPU? Or are there other plans for the FPGA? If so, what sort of thing are you envisioning? Is the CPU the bottleneck for lots of things Plan 9 users tend to do (I don't use Plan 9), such that it could be relieved by offloading to a FPGA? Also, I thought GPUs could be used for more than just graphical stuff nowadays, or is that either not general enough or not applicable for a little board like yours? Nick
