Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:55:02 -0500 From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> To: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> Cc: freebsd-tilera@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping Message-ID: <4F2800C6.1000307@tilera.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201311436230.29731@miami.exonetric.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201310855220.29731@miami.exonetric.net> <4F27F7DF.6060005@tilera.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201311420390.29731@miami.exonetric.net> <4F27FA7B.3050306@tilera.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201311436230.29731@miami.exonetric.net>
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On 1/31/2012 9:39 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote: > >> On 1/31/2012 9:22 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: >>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/31/2012 3:56 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: >>>>> Anyone still working on the FreeBSD port for Tilera? Perhaps 2011 >>>>> was very productive but very stealthy! >>>> >>>> Let's hope so - but I haven't heard anything about it either. :-) >>> >>> Hmm, so Tilera isn't pursuing this? The messages from 2010 suggested >>> Tilera engineers were doing something, but perhaps they were looking >>> for more FreeBSD involvement. >> >> My understanding (from a purely engineering perspective) is that we are >> prepared to support a FreeBSD port, but we are not currently planning to >> drive the port ourselves. > > Ok, fair enough. I wonder if the foundation would be prepared to fund > dedicated effort on porting. I've only just belatedly appreciated how much > more useful Tilera's application targets (64-bit + FP performance) are > compared to ARM. Indeed :-) Some work was going on at CMU under David Eckhardt, but I'm not sure how much progress they made. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com
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