Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Not sure if i can respond at this time about this, since G5 supply may be
> constrained by the will of IBM and/or Apple, it may be an unhealthy place to
> be for an alternative powerpc motherboard manufacturer.
There's embedded G5 boards already, the IBM reference design is
supported by current 2.6 kernels.
> We will have boards
> based on the next gen Freescale CPUs though (single and dual core with
> integrated northbridge), which should be a serious performance bump, but
> staying with 32bit cpus. You don't _really_ need 64bitness anyway.
It's pretty nice actually as soon as you have more than a Gigabyte of
main memory..
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