On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:13 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:04 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm personally pretty involved in Gen 2. If Gen2 is going to run > Windows, > > > > > it seriously limits the choice of processors. I can assure you > that I have > > > > > no such restrictions when making processor selections. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for this (albeit small) piece of information about what OLPC > > > > is working on these days. You are telling us that we need to infer > > > > OLPC's commitment to Sugar because you are choosing a processor > > > > without taking in account Windows support? Do you call this clarity? > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm sorry you don't understand. Yes, this is as clear as it gets. If > OLPC > > > is giving up on Sugar, and moving to Windows (or even contemplating > > > Windows as a viable replacement for Sugar) then I would have to > > > select an x86 processor for Gen2. > > > > > > > > > Please read again what I wrote. I think that this issue is worth much > > more than an indirect reference. > > > > And by the way, have you already selected a processor? Which are the > favorites? > > > > Processor selection for Gen2 has been ongoing for six months, and is > expected to > narrow down in the next few months. Gen2 will probably be an SOC, so > "processor" > is not the right term. > > We are favoring ARM and x86 right now, although the power consumption of > the > x86 solutions are not ideal. Multiple vendors support each. > I personally wish PPC were more competitive, but IBM and Freescale are > going > for different markets than ours. > > Just to reiterate (this frequently gets written on whiteboards around 1CC, > but rarely > mailed), the goals of Gen2 (in order) are: > > 1 - Lower Power > 2 - Lower Cost > 3 - More Robust > 4 - Better Performance
I'm very happy to see performance the last point. We can do much better from the software side. Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
