Reposted here from the main list: Hi, this should probably be on an SoC or "embedded" list, but as we are answering the emails below here goes (is there an appliance list?). Early next week there will be official announcements about Freescale Sponsoring this Program for the EFIKA:
http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php?program=EFIKA All reasonable registrants will get a free board. We have a few OpenSolaris entries already including one from CAB member Al Hopper - thanks Al. The EFIKA board is here: http://www.pegasosppc.com/efika.php Here is a brief description of the Program: http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php The 5200 is Freescale's main entree into the Automobile Industry for host processing. In 2007, half the cars in North America will have Freescale parts embedded therein and increasingly this chip. Freescale just opened a Automotive Design Center in Japan and have long been strong in Europe with BMW and Daimler. With this reference board Freescale is going to attack a *much* broader spectrum of markets. The BOM on the board is less than $50. Currently, we are doing everything we can do on the ODW on the EFIKA. There is not an altivec engine and the operating frequency is lower, but it does an great job at 1 Watt. Thanks to Blastwave, Sun Labs and some interested Sun engineers at large the PowerPC port is underway on the ODW. http://polaris.blastwave.org/ The EFIKA uses the same HAL/Open Firmware. Having Solaris in cars and everywhere else would be "a lot of grist for the mill." We would encourage all interested to participate. The announcements will begin Monday. R&B Genesi On Feb 9, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Cyril Plisko wrote: > On 2/9/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: >> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> FYI I just merged latest code drop (20060208) with polaris/trunk. >>> branches/boot is still lagging - I need to find couple of quiet >>> hours >>> to check there is no regressions. >> >> OOps, do you know what Build this is ? > > It would be b33 and a half. Steve is moving towards nightly code drop, > instead of biweekly. So it is the first step. > > -- > Regards, > Cyril > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org
