On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:45:21PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 03:14:57PM -0500, David Young wrote: > > > > Regardless of what we do or do not do with sun2 et cetera, TNF could buy > > some ARM and MIPS boards for developers. ARM and MIPS boards, however, > > are not so precious as a sun2. In fact, they're abundant, and cheap. > > Nevertheless, there does not seem to be much interest in porting to > > them. Why is that? > > Neither so abundant nor so cheap as you think, it seems to me, if you > want something that's modern enough to really be useful and has a vendor > friendly enough to make software development specifically for the platform > an exercise anyone would want to do in his spare time...!
I guess that it depends on your application whether these boards are "useful" or not, but these places sell inexpensive boards that have more-or-less open architecture/documentation: www.embeddedarm.com www.openplug.org www.routerboard.com www.ubnt.com In NetBSD, we have support for only a few of the boards at those links. I don't think that it's because TNF does not buy developers the boards. Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies dyo...@ojctech.com Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933