David Kuehling wrote: > - Keep it simple, stupid, especially with regard to having to maintain
I agree very much. Maintenance is un-fun :-) > more kernel drivers That's why I'm not so sure about the Ingenic Jz4760. We had a bit of a discussion about this on IRC today, and Wolfgang and Lars say that there are lots of changes with respect to the older XBursts. > and user-space hardware tools User space worries me indeed. Not because the porting efforts per se would be so bad (the non-portable bits in a program tend to disappear after the first few ports), but because if it's not in the base distribution yet, it needs a larger effort than just "build-try-announce", which is a common occurrence with OpenWRT. > (a usb host port might open pandora's box). USB host should in fact be fairly painless, because you can just reuse all the drivers that already exist for Linux. (Well, except for those abominations that come only as binaries.) It would increase the number of user space packages that need to be ported by those programs that use libusb, though. > That said, I don't currently feel that the hardware of the NN is > imposing limits on what I can use it for. People seem to run into RAM limitations a bit too often for my taste. Adding swap on Flash is a bit of a scary work-around, not only for potentially wearing out the Flash but also because it makes things even slower. A bit of swap is generally desirable to let the kernel get rid of pages it will never read anyway (e.g., think of initialization code), but anything else isn't so nice on this kind of system. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
