[iyonix-support] Re: iyonix 2 or not

Hi all.

Let me just say that, I, too, am saddened by the news of the cancellation of
the Iyonix 2 project, although I understand the reasoning, and I support the
suggestion of doing a survey. As others have pointed out, saying "yes" or
"no" now is meaningless, when there's no spec or price, and it has been made
clear that the decision to cancel the project has already been made.

>From: "Xavier Tardy" <xatardy@xxxxxxxxxx>

> John Ballance a écrit :
> >
> >> Would Iyonix also consider the idea of getting RISCOS onto a portable
> >> ARM device if they could presell enough units.
> >
> > with a suitable portable device, this is a possibility.. at present
> > I'm not aware of a suitable candidate.
>
> Check openpandora.org

I've done a lot of searching at the net the lat couple of days, to try to
find suitable hardware platforms as a potential target for a RISC OS port.
There are of course numerous ARM-powered devices around, but I've
concentrated my search on the high-end ARM processors, so to speak, in
particular the latest ARM generation known as ARM Cortex. This one - in
particular the A-series (for "Application Processor") - has several
advantages to the Xscale architecture, such as having an FPU (yes!) and 3D
graphics acceleration.

Given this, the following are among those seeming most promising (the two
first having been mentioned already in this thread):

- Pandora (http://www.openpandora.org/) - Uses the OMAP3530 ARM Cortex A8
processor. A game console running Linux
- Beagle Board (http://beagleboard.org/) - Same processor and OS, but just a
print board
- Gumstix overo
(http://www.gumstix.net/Overo/view/Overo/Overview/115.html) - Similar to the
Beagle Board (same processor and OS)

I've just started looking into the last one, and it looks actually geared
towards making a small general-purpose computer (rather than just a
prototype board or a game console), so it might be a potential fit for us...

In other words, maybe our (and Castle's?) efforts might be more fruitfully
directed towards porting RISC OS to existing hardware, rather than building
that hardware ourselves. After all, you don't need a "Linux computer" to run
Linux (all the above computers run Linux, for one thing). Maybe this is
where RISC OS's future lies: Portability to different hardware (as also
Peter Naulls focused on). That is, if it does _have_ a future (running
natively, not just emulated), and that's what we want, isn't it?

Regards,

Terje

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