> what about the chinese Loongson processor? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson > > a notebook running mandriva using that chip seems to > be on the way > http://www.gdium.com/description > > and there is some documentation about it in > http://www.loongsondeveloper.com
The -2 (as in the laptop above) and -3 sound interesting if unspectacular, but the -1...it'd make more send IMO to look at ARM for embedded stuff than at that. Since x86 still has 32-bit support, I wonder how difficult a port to ARM (in little-endian mode) would be. It would be _very_ cool to have such a rock-solid OS (albeit stripped down to the bone) running on phones, printers, etc. (my Ricoh laser printer runs some flavor of BSD, the iPhone/iPod Touch run Darwin, etc; so this is not absurd, IMO) For embedded use, ARM seems to be where it's at, compared to either MIPS or PowerPC descended CPUs. As to whether one really wants to spend more money that ends up in the hands of the Chinese military, that's another story... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
