On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:33, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some weeks ago, I started porting Fedora Core 2 to the Intel IXP2400, > which is basically a 600MHz big-endian xscale (ARM) core. Right now > I have ~550 out of ~950 packages building and seemingly in good order. > (I have not yet attempted to build openoffice and such.) Is anyone making machines for general-purpose use based on the IXP2400 core? Or is it just for routers? > I would like to start submitting the (surprisingly small number of) > needed patches so far back into Fedora, perhaps shifting my efforts > towards FC3. What do people here think about such an effort? Sounds good. Any time you port to a new architecture you are likely to shake out bugs that aren't obvious on i386. I've found heaps of bugs by porting code to other CPUs. Also there's a good chance that bugs you fix for ARM may also impact IA64. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
