Can you keep us posted about these projects of yours, especially related to the Sam460 board ?
Thanks Jeroen On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 19:55 +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:39:41 -0700 > > Von: Brian Morris <cymraeg...@gmail.com> > > An: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > Betreff: Re: Something that we don\'t want to happen to PowerPC on Debian > > > I believe perhaps the greatest factor is are new products being made and > > expected in the near future. > ... > > although some or most of these industrial applications appear to be > > running VME or some such non Linux OS, I believe that there is > > certainly future potential for Linux especially in the aftermarket or > > smaller manufacturers with tighter margins (perhaps the new commercial > > space ventures who knows). > Besides some industrial PPC applications there is still PPC hardware > being developed for normal desktop users. A good example are the Sam440 > and Sam460 boards from ACube Systems Srl. (with AMCC 440/460 cpus) or > the yet to be released AmigaOne X1000 with a dual-core PA6T cpu. All > these machines were (mostly) development for AmigaOS and are very > expensive (compared to normal PC hardware - IIRC a motherboard costs > around 600 to 800€), but I'm sure a lot Amiga users will also run Linux > (hopefully Debian) on these machines. > > > another thing to possible speak of is the wonderfully improved support > > for auto-vectorizing of altivec in recent versions of gcc. It would be a > > terrible thing to waste this. But the port needs to somehow back it. > > Debian being something of a behemoth, it is a wild hope that there would > > be good support to simply user custom build systems such as altivec > > optimizing. > I also have libfreevec running on my AmigaOneXE (7455 cpu). This machine > is quite slow under GNOME, so any speed improvement is more than welcome. > However DRM (hardware graphics acceleration) is unusable on it, which is > even a bigger pain. :-( > > > Another major major factor is is there (documented) plenty new blood of > > developers and users in Debian for the port. > I'm trying to adapt the Debian installer for my AmigaOne and possibly > also for the Sam440/460 boards. I have a rough plan for what needs to > be changed, but utterly failed so far to even adapt the linux-2.6 > source package for these platforms. > > ... > > > > Brian > > > > p.s. I am shopping for a development board for my research in autonomous > > systems, and wouldn't it be nice to have powerpc ? but affordability is > > > an issue and also community software support -- it is leaning strongly > > toward ARM. > > > > any suggestions here ? The price / performance ratio is important. > > > > > > > > 2011/4/13 Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA384 > > > > > > Dear people, > > > > > > I know that this is probably not as serious for PowerPC as it was for > > > some other platforms, but it was, in my opinion, very sad to know that > > > Debian has dropped support for 2 architectures: alpha and hppa. > > > > > > For some personal reasons, I felt particularly sad about alpha (I > > > planned to buy one used machine for my own use), but, now, I sincerely > > > hope that people more knowledgeable about the architecture reintroduce > > > them as official ports of Debian again. > > > > > > As I would really hate to see these things happen to PowerPC, would > > > other people join me in collecting data for a future requalification > > > of PowerPC as a release architecture in Debian? Previous > > > qualification/certification data are available in: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/powerpcEtchReleaseRecertification > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/powerpcLennyReleaseRecertification > > > > > > I know that this may sound a bit premature at this stage, but it is > > > better if we, as a whole, report the errors as early as possible (and, > > > for those that can, provide a few patches), so that ppc is as healthy > > > as feasible and not in any danger of being dropped out. > > > > > > For those that didn't know about alpha and hppa being dropped from > > > Debian, please read this: > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/04/msg00000.html > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > - -- > > > Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA > > Good to see that someone is taking care of the Debian PPC port. > Keep up the good work! > > best regards, > Gerhard > -- > NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! > Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1303070556.2963.1.camel@jeroen-mint
