It seems to me that the PowerPC port, is currently the closest thing we have to an embedded version of OpenSolaris. I'd vote for a HW reference platform with a smaller footprint.
With that in mind, why don't we target SBC's like these: http://www.embeddedplanet.com/products/sbc.asp?_kk=embedded%20powerpc&_kt=6d68823f-b05a-4a9c-b050-12d707535e28&gclid=CID65dGa5Y8CFReQGgodcnE7CA -Brian P.S. - We already have excellent choices for servers with x86 and Sparc. It's embedded that we are missing. (ARM and MIPS ports are going to be much more work, than a general purpose processor like PPC). On Nov 17, 2007 7:56 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > > > On 17/11/2007, William Kucharski <William.Kucharski at sun.com> wrote: > >> Ken Mays wrote: > >> > Somehow I think we should be looking at server grade technology in > >> > order > >> > to go forwards. This means technology with multiple processors also. > >> > > >> > I was thinking : > >> > > >> > BladeCenter S Express Model 8886E1U > >> > $4,499.00 > >> > >> Unfortunately, pursuing a port to POWER is somewhat different from > porting > >> to > >> PowerPC. The two architectures are not precisely the same, though they > of > >> course share the same DNA. > >> > >> The biggest issue surrounding a port to the POWER4, POWER5 or POWER6 or > >> the PPC > >> 970MP is that they're multi-core CPUs and/or are typically used in > >> multiprocessor configurations. This poses a notable difficulty in that > no > >> current implementation of Solaris runs on a multi-core or > multiprocessor > >> system > >> with a weakly-ordered memory architecture. > >> > >> For example, on SPARC, Solaris runs in TSO mode (while Linux runs in > RMO.) > > > > For those of us that weren't aware of this subtle difference, there is > > a great article here: > > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8212 > > > > and another top notch publication : > > http://csg.csail.mit.edu/pubs/memos/Memo-493/memo-493.pdf > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20071117/24ffe401/attachment.html>
