On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com>wrote:
> Isn't Qube too old to be considered a viable target for this project ? > One of the lessons I've learned from the PPC port is to make sure the > hardware is readily available and not going to die soon. Otherwise the > software will follow the hardware :-( Agreed. This was, honestly, one of the main reasons I reached out to Movidis. > > > The platform vendor willingness to cooperate is not always enough - > with PPC Genesi was as cooperative as one could possibly dream, > however the system logic was not their part and Marvell (their chip > was there) just couldn't care less. Agreed. Since this isn't corporate sponsored, I consider it a risk to complete success that it will rely on external contributions. Regardless I still have energy and optimism. I know that won't be enough, though. > > > The platform itself looks quite interesting. Are there any other > possible _modern_ platform this project can target ? I'm open to ideas. For me, the Movidis x16 platform is interesting because it does not solely target the dedicated network switch/routing market that I so often see MIPS being used in. I think this may also be interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20081019/ba2903c4/attachment.html>
