On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Not sure if i can respond at this time about this, since G5 supply may be > constrained by the will of IBM and/or Apple, it may be an unhealthy place to > be for an alternative powerpc motherboard manufacturer.
There's embedded G5 boards already, the IBM reference design is supported by current 2.6 kernels. > We will have boards > based on the next gen Freescale CPUs though (single and dual core with > integrated northbridge), which should be a serious performance bump, but > staying with 32bit cpus. You don't _really_ need 64bitness anyway. It's pretty nice actually as soon as you have more than a Gigabyte of main memory..