20 Apr
2012
20 Apr
'12
11:50 p.m.
On 04/17/2012 11:00 AM, David Riley wrote:
I was just as mad when management at one of our
clients forced us to
use Linux on a little embedded board where the microcontroller was
only going to be used for housekeeping; with a tiny little event loop
for an OS, we could have done the job with a 50 MHz ARM, but instead
we ended up with an 800 MHz PowerPC which caused us no end of trouble
(not least because it was a buggy chip, which is maybe a separate
issue). I like Linux, and I like PowerPCs, but they didn't belong
there.
When processor architecture becomes a "business decision", I
respectfully submit that you've got bigger problems on your hands than
just debugging the PPC system.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA