On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:38:21PM -0400, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > > [ For those not in the know: the IXP2400 is basically just an xscale > > (which is Intel's version of ARM) processor, with some extra on-chip > > processing logic for fast network processing. The chip itself has > > an integrated memory controller, 64b/66MHz PCI unit, 4Gbps SPI-3 bus, > > and 8 on-chip processors which have a very simple instruction set > > designed to do network-related things such as switching, routing, > > firewalling, etc. It can do full wire speed 4xGbps processing, and > > its bigger brother, the IXP2800, does full wire speed 10xGbps. ] > > So how close is this processor to the older StrongArm processor used > in the now orphaned Netwinder? I don't think xscale code runs on the strongarm. I'm not sure if strongarm code runs on the xscale -- can you send me a statically linked hello world binary to find out? (Is the strongarm mixed endian like the xscale?) > There's actually a port of Red Hat 9 to the netwinder (called Gonzo), > but I don't know if it's still available at ftp.netwinder.org, though I > do have a copy, along with some patches I came up with to get more > packages to build. (Aside: one of the key fixes, which you might have > already found, is getting libtool to recognize the platform correctly. > That allows a non-trivial number of other packages to build. Though > this may already be fixed in more recent versions of libtool, I don't > know.) > There were some issues with the firmware source not being > redistributable, but the binaries being included in the nw9 image > (though it was an obvious GPL violation on the part of those who made > the modifications, since it is, in fact, based on Linux), but I can at > least make the image without the firmware available and/or my patches. I'm interested. I can't seem to access ftp.netwinder.org at the moment. Can you send me (pointers to) whatever you've got? thanks, Lennert
