John Watlington 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. > >
Sorry for jumping in the middle of this thread, but I is the consideration for different SoC types based on being able to run Windows at some point in time? What if Gen2 has an architecture that doesn't run Windows? Sameer > 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 > > wad > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel