John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW, I think that a MIPS port may have more success than a powerpc > port for the simple matter that MIPS is so well understood in academia > that a decent emulator that emulates a real system can be found > relatively easily, and failing that the architecture is simple enough > that one, sufficiently motivated, could write a MIPS emulator to the > proper specs
it depends.... If yoou think of the opportinity to run OpenSolaris in wlan routers, a MIPS port will have more success in case it is able to run with a limited amount of RAM and in case that there will also be drivers for FLASH memory. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily