From: smoerk (smoerk_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 03:51:52 PDT
Hello Paul
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:20:59 -0700 (PDT), Paul Guyot
<pguyot_at_kallisys.net> wrote:
> Please note, however, that if we have even just 2K users of Einstein, that
> Einstein will be a big weight in the platform, whether it is NetBSD-arm-be
> (NetBSD on ARM big endian, something that doesn't exist yet) or
> Linux-arm-be. I think this is a key element for picking the POSIX core and
> the reason why I prefer NetBSD is that it's a BSD license (we won't be
> scared of mixing closed source stuff with it) and that the NetBSD
> community is open to native code emulation projects with their Linux,
> MacOS X and Solaris native code emulation tools (please note that Einstein
> is much more complex than all these projects, though).
Is NetBSD really running on PDAs? I don't know any BSD for PDA
project. I'm running familiar linux on Compaq iPAQ and it's quite good
and supports many PDAs (iPAQ, Zaurus, a few Toshibas and Dells). I
have no idea why people port Linux to the PDA instead of NetBSD, but
it seems everybody uses Linux for mobile devices.
I doubt there is any licensing problem with the a GPLed Linux kernel,
as binary closed source kernel modules could be used. Examples are
Nvidia drivers and the commercial OSS (sound card) drivers.
I don't see a real disadvantage with using linux, although I'm not the
one who thinks Linux is always the best solution for everything.
How much performance would we lose with the JIT? For me it sounds like
it would be the best solution.
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