Hi Garrett,
I have standardized all of my design projects on the MIPS32 and/or MIPS64
architectures.  I have made AMD's Alchemy line of devices my first choice
when I have begin selecting a device for a new project.  About 4 months ago
I seriously looked at using NetBSD as the foundation for an Au1100 based
consumer oriented device that I am developing.  While I found NetBSD
contained everything that I needed, I use Win2kPro and Cygwin as my
development platform and quite frankly the few times that I tried to cross
build NetBSD for my Au1100 software development board, it failed miserably.
After about a week of debugging the configuration scripts to get NetBSD to
cross build on Cygwin/bash, I gave up and chose WinCE v5.0 and the
easy-to-use associated toolset.

I have other projects coming up that will use Alchemy devices.  If you know
of a method that I can use to resolve the Cygwin/bash build problems, I
would be willing to help at that time.

Best Regards,

Charles L. Nelson
Embedded System Architects
www.embsyspro.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garrett_damore@tadpole.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:31 PM
> To: port-evbmips@netbsd.org; port-mips@netbsd.org
> Subject: anyone else out there?
>
>
> Anyone else using or interesting in using Alchemy parts?  I know Simon
> has a couple of boards, but I'm curious if there is anyone else out there.
>
> I've made a lot of progress with improvements to the port, but I've not
> submitted all of the changes yet, owing largely to the fact that I have
> dependency fixes which have yet to be properly reviewed and committed.
>
> I have gathered that Simon more or less has his plate full at the
> moment, so I'd love to find other folks who are interested in the work
> I'm doing, especially who are willing to either test or review my
> changes.  Perhaps this can help offload Simon somewhat, and help
> expedite getting these enhancements to the port committed.
>
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> Garrett D'Amore                          http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
> Sr. Staff Engineer          Extending the Power of 64-bit UNIX Computing
> Tadpole Computer, Inc.                             Phone: (951) 325-2134
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