Solaris on this would be awesome. I brought this very subject in one
of the Open Solaris mailing lists a couple of months ago. There was no
interest. It wasn't for this product specifically, but something
similar to Sun's Niagara,
http://www.razamicroelectronics.com/products/xlr.htm.

Later,

Tiffany.

On 8/14/06, Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com> wrote:
> Timo Schoeler wrote:
> > thus Garrett D'Amore spake:
> >> Timo Schoeler wrote:
> >>> http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp
> >>>
> >>> 16 core MIPS CPU, ECC RAM, very low power design.
> >>>
> >>> or wait for PA Semi and their PowerPC-based PWFficient? :)
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>>
> >>
> >> I want one. :-)
> >>
> >> Just when you think MIPS is a dying architecture, news like this comes
> >> out...
> >
> > definitely. :)
> >
> > given the energy saving hype MIPS (and a few others) really have an
> > advantage due to their focus on embedded CPUs... (no, i'm not against
> > it -- as long as it saves the environment, almost anything can be
> > legitimated; and 'cos energy is equivalent to $$$, even people that
> > don't care a shit about the environment are 'forced' to save it :)
> >
>
> I just sent a sales inquiry to their folks.
>
> One of my questions I asked them is whether they were interesting in
> funding a port of Solaris to it.  I've been toying with the idea of
> doing a Solaris MIPS64 for a while now....
>
> I hate to say it, but I think on a highly SMP box like this NetBSD will
> perform poorly (at least compared to alternatives).
>
> If I had more energy, I might have considered trying to work NetBSD
> kernel concurrency.  But I suspect that is a major quagmire anyway,
> because fixing it requires such a huge code overhaul to introduce better
> kernel threading and eliminate the Giant Lock.
>
> --
> Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
> Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
> General Dynamics C4 Systems
> http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
> Phone: 951 325-2134  Fax: 951 325-2191
>
>