On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:58:20AM -0400, George G. Davis wrote: > It comes down to decisions of bill-of-materials and performance, the > MBX/SGX options mentioned already are part of the SoCs and have high > bandwidth connections to the processor. External options increase cost > and won't match bandwidth of on chip options, but that's just my > ignorant opinion w/o looking at the low-level detail comparisons. > Unless you intend to encourage the SoC vendors to use the SM50x > instead? : ) Of course, that won't help for the current and planned > generation(s) of devices... The BoM argument is probably true for high volume consumer or automotive use cases. For industrial usage, long term maintainability and thus availability of documentation and code is usually a more important argument. Just my 0.02 ct. I'm just a poor open source guy :) rsc -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
