[Resent for Reply-all] On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
> > +1 > > Except that it would be nice if somebody would make the Polaris port > functional, before starting a new port. > Also, why MIPS, not ARM? Isn't MIPS dead a bit? > Thanks for the vote and the feedback. I believe the PowerPC is either lacking consensus on a platform or lacking other resources (or both). I agree that the PowerPC has some attractive features, but lack of a valid, available platform and resources I think is contributing to its dormancy. I believe that interest continues for that platform, but once Sun Labs discontinued development support, the project seems to have gone into hibernation. Someone mentioned interest in an ARM a short while ago, but in my research, I could not find a solid, available platform that provided enough physical resources -- namely 256MB to 512MB RAM, which I believe would be a minimum footprint. It is my opinion that OpenSolaris is a tough nut to crack on embedded platforms. What makes the Movidis platform interesting is support for larger memory footprints (8GB) and the intended markets, including web application hosting. Use of the Octeon processor is also interesting to me, personally. > > %martin > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20081018/30546885/attachment.html>
