On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:16:42PM +0100, jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > A possibility for a MIPS64 based device might be the recently announced > Broadcom BCM97398 IPTV set-top box reference design platform: > > http://tinyurl.com/bm44b > > This contains a BCM7038 with a 300 MHz R5Kf together with enough > peripherals to make it interesting: 2 x UART; 2 x SATA; 2 x USB 2.0; > 10/100 Ethernet. If produced in quantity and available it would > probably be more affordable than low volume evaluation boards. > > What I would like to see is a multicore (multithreading?) MIPS64 chip > attached by HyperTransport to a PC chipset (eg. Via KN800A) on a small > form factor board (mini-itx; micro-atx; micro-btx). An ideal plaything > for the kernel hacker and a useful resource for academic teaching and > research - a modern version of the UNSW U4600 ... There's a wild difference between the 5Kf, a relativly simple 64-bit core and one of the current 32-bit & 64-bit multithreading cores coming out. For the latter ones you'll probably still have to hold the breath for little. Ralf
